Color

#ce9cae

#ce9cae
hex#ce9cae
rgbrgb(206, 156, 174)
hslhsl(338, 34%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.745 0.064 355.3)
Closest name: Exotic Lilac (#d198b5)Relative luminance 0.3995

Colors that go with #ce9cae

Charcoal, Dark Sea Green and Champagne 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 #ce9cae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9ccebc

#ce9cc7 · #cea39c

#aece9c · #9caece

Split-complementary

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#9ccea3 · #9cc7ce

#c7ce9c · #9ccebc · #a39cce

Contrast

#ce9cae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.34:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ae5b7a as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #85425a as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.06:1)
Aaon black
8.99:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ce9cae 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

#ce9cae reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ce9cae
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 #ce9cae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ce9cae-c49ca6-62cb72-2d201f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md