Color

#d496be

#d496be
hex#d496be
rgbrgb(212, 150, 190)
hslhsl(321, 42%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.745 0.091 340.6)
Closest name: Exotic Lilac (#d198b5)Relative luminance 0.3953

Colors that go with #d496be

Charcoal, Dark Sea Green and Copper 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 #d496be

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#96d4ac

#cb96d4 · #d4969f

#bed496 · #96bed4

Split-complementary

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#9fd496 · #96d4cb

#d4cb96 · #96d4ac · #969fd4

Contrast

#d496be as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.36:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b85194 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #8d3a70 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.23:1)
Aaon black
8.91:1passpasspassPasses 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 #d496be 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

#d496be reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #d496be
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 #d496be and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/d496be-c19fb1-70cb62-2d1f22-f0e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md