Darkroom
Open in tool →Sepia, faded ochre and a teal shadow on aged paper — the photograph-in-a-drawer palette, tuned so it still passes AA.
Color
#c09a7c
#c09a7c
hex
#c09a7crgb
rgb(192, 154, 124)hsl
hsl(26, 35%, 62%)oklch
oklch(0.714 0.062 59.9)Closest name: Beauty and the Beach (#c99680)Relative luminance 0.3577
Colors that go with #c09a7c
Cadet Blue, Charcoal 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #c09a7c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #c09a7c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bramble put Champagne beside #c09a7c, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #c09a7c: 7 real palettes, including Bakery and Riverbed, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
split-complementshippedCornflower Blue is a split-complement of #c09a7c: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #c09a7c in 5 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Retro Pop, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #c09a7c in 6 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #c09a7c: 5 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Dusk, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #c09a7c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c09a7c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.58:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.15:1 | 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 #c09a7c as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#c09a7c reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c09a7c
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #c09a7c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c09a7c-c4b29c-62cbc5-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md