Clean Beauty
Open in tool →Sage and clay on unbleached white — the nothing-to-hide palette for ingredient-led skincare.
Color
#c4bbab
#c4bbab
hex
#c4bbabrgb
rgb(196, 187, 171)hsl
hsl(38, 17%, 72%)oklch
oklch(0.795 0.024 82.1)Closest name: Another One Bites the Dust (#c7bba4)Relative luminance 0.5022
Colors that go with #c4bbab
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #c4bbab without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Bramble put Champagne beside #c4bbab, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #c4bbab: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #c4bbab in 5 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #c4bbab in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Undergrowth, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #c4bbab: 4 real palettes, including Fitbit's brand system and Victoria's Secret's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #c4bbab in 5 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #c4bbab in 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Canopy, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #c4bbab
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c4bbab as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.9:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.04:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #c4bbab 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
Mushroom
Open in tool →Taupe, oat and a sage accent — the quiet earth palette: almost neutral, with just enough colour to feel alive.
Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Fonts for this mood
#c4bbab reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c4bbab
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #c4bbab and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c4bbab-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md