Color
#cca9db
#cca9dbrgb(204, 169, 219)hsl(282, 41%, 76%)oklch(0.782 0.079 315.7)Colors that go with #cca9db
Charcoal, Dark Sea Green and Crimson 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 text near-black for #cca9db: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Sea Green #8fbc8f
complementaryshippedDark Sea Green sits directly opposite #cca9db on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #cca9db in 4 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and JBL's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #cca9db: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Victoria's Secret's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Lavender Haze put Midnight Blue beside #cca9db, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #cca9db: 7 real palettes, including Calendly's brand system and Macaron, as the accent.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped8 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Graphite Mono put Slate Gray beside #cca9db, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #cca9db in 17 real palettes, including Blossom and Macaron, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #cca9db
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cca9db as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.05:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.27:1 | 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 #cca9db 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
#cca9db reads as cool, light, clean. 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 #cca9db and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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