Color
#cc999a
#cc999argb(204, 153, 154)hsl(359, 33%, 70%)oklch(0.731 0.061 17.4)Colors that go with #cc999a
Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #cc999a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and Darkroom put Champagne beside #cc999a, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #cc999a: 6 real palettes, including Riverbed and Bramble, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #cc999a in 4 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #cc999a in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #cc999a: 4 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Guinness's brand system, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #cc999a: 4 real palettes, including Spline's brand system and Liquid Death's brand system, as the lead colour.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
complementaryLight Sea Green sits directly opposite #cc999a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #cc999a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cc999a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.44:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.59:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #cc999a 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
#cc999a reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #cc999a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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