Color

#cc99aa

#cc99aa
hex#cc99aa
rgbrgb(204, 153, 170)
hslhsl(340, 33%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.736 0.065 357)
Closest name: Exotic Lilac (#d198b5)Relative luminance 0.3852

Colors that go with #cc99aa

Charcoal, Dark Sea Green and Burlywood 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.

Real palettes that use #cc99aa

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#99ccbb

#cc99c3 · #cca299

#aacc99 · #99aacc

Split-complementary

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#99cca2 · #99c3cc

#c3cc99 · #99ccbb · #a299cc

Contrast

#cc99aa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.41:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ad5c77 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #844359 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.06:1)
Aaon black
8.7:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cc99aa 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

#cc99aa reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cc99aa
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 #cc99aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cc99aa-c49ca5-62cb75-2d211f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md