Color

#c4a587

#c4a587
hex#c4a587
rgbrgb(196, 165, 135)
hslhsl(30, 34%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.742 0.055 65.9)
Closest name: Apricotta (#d8a48f)Relative luminance 0.404

Colors that go with #c4a587

Charcoal, Sky Blue 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.

Real palettes that use #c4a587

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#87a6c4

#c48787 · #c4c487

#87c4a6 · #a687c4

Split-complementary

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#87c4c4 · #8787c4

#87c487 · #87a6c4 · #c487c4

Contrast

#c4a587 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.31:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #936e48 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #6d5236 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.13:1)
Aaon black
9.08:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c4a587 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

#c4a587 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c4a587
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 #c4a587 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c4a587-c4b59c-62c9cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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