Color

#c1bdae

#c1bdae
hex#c1bdae
rgbrgb(193, 189, 174)
hslhsl(47, 13%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.797 0.021 94.6)
Closest name: Ash (#bebaa7)Relative luminance 0.5079

Colors that go with #c1bdae

Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 #c1bdae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aeb2c1

#c1b4ae · #bcc1ae

#aec1bd · #bdaec1

Split-complementary

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#aebcc1 · #b4aec1

#aec1b4 · #aeb2c1 · #c1aebc

Contrast

#c1bdae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.88:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c765f as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #5c5847 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.71:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
11.16:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c1bdae 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

#c1bdae reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c1bdae
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 #c1bdae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c1bdae-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md