Color

#cd8998

#cd8998
hex#cd8998
rgbrgb(205, 137, 152)
hslhsl(347, 40%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.703 0.085 5.1)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.3314

Colors that go with #cd8998

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Blush Pink 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 #cd8998

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#89cdbe

#cd89b9 · #cd9c89

#98cd89 · #8998cd

Split-complementary

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#89cd9c · #89b9cd

#b9cd89 · #89cdbe · #9c89cd

Contrast

#cd8998 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.75:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b7576c as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #8f3d4f as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.06:1)
Aaon black
7.63:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cd8998 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

#cd8998 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cd8998
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 #cd8998 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cd8998-c49ca0-62cb82-2d221f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md