Color

#c09ba4

#c09ba4
hex#c09ba4
rgbrgb(192, 155, 164)
hslhsl(345, 23%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.726 0.046 2)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3733

Colors that go with #c09ba4

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 #c09ba4

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9bc0b7

#c09bb7 · #c0a49b

#a4c09b · #9ba4c0

Split-complementary

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#9bc0a4 · #9bb7c0

#b7c09b · #9bc0b7 · #a49bc0

Contrast

#c09ba4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.48:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9f6574 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #774b56 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.02:1)
Aaon black
8.47:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c09ba4 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

#c09ba4 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c09ba4
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 #c09ba4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c09ba4-c49ca1-62cb7e-2d221f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md