Color

#db9cdd

#db9cdd
hex#db9cdd
rgbrgb(219, 156, 221)
hslhsl(298, 49%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.774 0.114 325.6)
Closest name: plum (#dda0dd)Relative luminance 0.4406

Colors that go with #db9cdd

Emerald Green, Charcoal 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9edd9c

#bb9cdd · #dd9cbf

#dddb9c · #9cdddb

Split-complementary

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#bfdd9c · #9cddbb

#ddbb9c · #9edd9c · #9cbfdd

Contrast

#db9cdd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.14:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ba41be as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #8d3190 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
9.81:1passpasspassPasses 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 #db9cdd 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

#db9cdd reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #db9cdd
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 #db9cdd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/db9cdd-c19fbe-98cb62-2d1f28-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md