Color

#c1aa85

#c1aa85
hex#c1aa85
rgbrgb(193, 170, 133)
hslhsl(37, 33%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.749 0.057 79.5)
Closest name: Sand (#c2b280)Relative luminance 0.4178

Colors that go with #c1aa85

Charcoal, Lilac and Cadet 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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#859cc1

#c18c85 · #bac185

#85c1aa · #aa85c1

Split-complementary

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#85bac1 · #8c85c1

#85c18c · #859cc1 · #c185ba

Contrast

#c1aa85 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.24:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8b7146 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #695535 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.17:1)
Aaon black
9.36:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c1aa85 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

#c1aa85 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c1aa85
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 #c1aa85 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c1aa85-c4b99c-62bdcb-2c2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md