Color

#c38f8d

#c38f8d
hex#c38f8d
rgbrgb(195, 143, 141)
hslhsl(2, 31%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.7 0.064 21.3)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.3317

Colors that go with #c38f8d

Cadet Blue, Charcoal 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 #c38f8d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8dc1c3

#c38da7 · #c3aa8d

#8dc38f · #8f8dc3

Split-complementary

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#8dc3aa · #8da7c3

#a7c38d · #8dc1c3 · #aa8dc3

Contrast

#c38f8d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.75:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ab615f as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #824745 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.63:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c38f8d 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

#c38f8d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c38f8d
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 #c38f8d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c38f8d-c4a29c-62cb9c-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md