Color

#c1ae8a

#c1ae8a
hex#c1ae8a
rgbrgb(193, 174, 138)
hslhsl(39, 31%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.758 0.054 83.3)
Closest name: Sand (#c2b280)Relative luminance 0.4344

Colors that go with #c1ae8a

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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#8a9dc1

#c1928a · #b9c18a

#8ac1ae · #ae8ac1

Split-complementary

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#8ab9c1 · #928ac1

#8ac192 · #8a9dc1 · #c18ab9

Contrast

#c1ae8a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.17:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #897248 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #685637 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.16:1)
Aaon black
9.69:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c1ae8a 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

#c1ae8a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c1ae8a
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 #c1ae8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c1ae8a-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md