Color
#cd9ad5
#cd9ad5rgb(205, 154, 213)hsl(292, 41%, 72%)oklch(0.754 0.1 321.8)Colors that go with #cd9ad5
Charcoal, Emerald Green and Midnight Blue 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 #cd9ad5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Emerald Green #50c878
complementaryshippedEmerald Green sits directly opposite #cd9ad5 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Lavender Haze put Midnight Blue beside #cd9ad5, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #cd9ad5: 6 real palettes, including Macaron and Crypto.com's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Graphite put Slate Gray beside #cd9ad5, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #cd9ad5 in 13 real palettes, including Blossom and Meadow, as the text colour against it.
Dark Khaki #bdb76b
split-complementshippedDark Khaki is a split-complement of #cd9ad5: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #cd9ad5 in 3 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #cd9ad5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cd9ad5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.29:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.18:1 | 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 #cd9ad5 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
#cd9ad5 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 #cd9ad5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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