Color
#d496ab
#d496abrgb(212, 150, 171)hsl(340, 42%, 71%)oklch(0.739 0.079 357.2)Colors that go with #d496ab
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #d496ab: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Sea Green #8fbc8f
complementaryshippedDark Sea Green sits directly opposite #d496ab on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Bramble put Champagne beside #d496ab, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #d496ab: 6 real palettes, including Riverbed and Clean Beauty, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #d496ab in 4 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #d496ab: 4 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Open House, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Railway's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #d496ab, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #d496ab: 6 real palettes, including Macaron and Nursery, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #d496ab
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #d496ab as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.4:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.75:1 | 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 #d496ab 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
#d496ab reads as warm, 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 #d496ab and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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