Color

#cc8ea9

#cc8ea9
hex#cc8ea9
rgbrgb(204, 142, 169)
hslhsl(334, 38%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.716 0.083 351.6)
Closest name: Exotic Lilac (#d198b5)Relative luminance 0.3505

Colors that go with #cc8ea9

Charcoal, Copper and Midnight Blue lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#8eccb2

#cc8ec8 · #cc938e

#a9cc8e · #8ea9cc

Split-complementary

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#8ecc93 · #8ec8cc

#c8cc8e · #8eccb2 · #938ecc

Contrast

#cc8ea9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.62:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b3567e as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #893e5e as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
8.01:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #cc8ea9 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#cc8ea9 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cc8ea9
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #cc8ea9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cc8ea9-c49ca9-62cb6b-2d1f1f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md