Color

#c09ba3

#c09ba3
hex#c09ba3
rgbrgb(192, 155, 163)
hslhsl(347, 23%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.726 0.045 3.8)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3729

Colors that go with #c09ba3

Charcoal, Dark Sea Green and Burlywood 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 #c09ba3

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9bc0b8

#c09bb6 · #c0a59b

#a3c09b · #9ba3c0

Split-complementary

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#9bc0a5 · #9bb6c0

#b6c09b · #9bc0b8 · #a59bc0

Contrast

#c09ba3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.48:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9f6572 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #774b54 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.01:1)
Aaon black
8.46:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c09ba3 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

#c09ba3 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c09ba3
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 #c09ba3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c09ba3-c49ca0-62cb82-2d221f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md