Color

#c4ba8d

#c4ba8d
hex#c4ba8d
rgbrgb(196, 186, 141)
hslhsl(49, 32%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.786 0.061 97)
Closest name: Beige and Sage (#bbc199)Relative luminance 0.4878

Colors that go with #c4ba8d

Charcoal, Lilac and 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 #c4ba8d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8d97c4

#c49e8d · #b2c48d

#8dc4ba · #ba8dc4

Split-complementary

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#8db2c4 · #9e8dc4

#8dc49e · #8d97c4 · #c48db2

Contrast

#c4ba8d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.95:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #807542 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #625932 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.25:1)
Aaon black
10.76:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c4ba8d 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

#c4ba8d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c4ba8d
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 #c4ba8d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c4ba8d-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md