Color

#cca8bd

#cca8bd
hex#cca8bd
rgbrgb(204, 168, 189)
hslhsl(325, 26%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.77 0.05 342.5)
Closest name: Lilac (#c8a2c8)Relative luminance 0.4452

Colors that go with #cca8bd

Charcoal, Dark Sea Green 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.

Real palettes that use #cca8bd

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a8ccb7

#c9a8cc · #cca8ab

#bdcca8 · #a8bdcc

Split-complementary

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#abcca8 · #a8ccc9

#ccc9a8 · #a8ccb7 · #a8abcc

Contrast

#cca8bd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.12:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a36287 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #7a4865 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.14:1)
Aaon black
9.9:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cca8bd 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

#cca8bd reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cca8bd
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 #cca8bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cca8bd-c19faf-69cb62-2d1f21-f0e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md