Graphite Mono
Open in tool →Five greys, no hue — the true monochrome; the accent is a lighter grey, so hierarchy comes from weight and size alone.
Color
#c4bbc4
#c4bbc4
hex
#c4bbc4rgb
rgb(196, 187, 196)hsl
hsl(300, 7%, 75%)oklch
oklch(0.802 0.016 325.7)Closest name: silver (#c0c0c0)Relative luminance 0.5126
Colors that go with #c4bbc4
Charcoal, Copper and Crimson 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 #c4bbc4 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #c4bbc4: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #c4bbc4 in 4 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #c4bbc4: 5 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Calendly's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #c4bbc4: 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 #c4bbc4 in 4 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped9 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #c4bbc4, as the text colour against it.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln put Peru beside #c4bbc4, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #c4bbc4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c4bbc4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.87:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.25:1 | 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 #c4bbc4 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
#c4bbc4 reads as neutral, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c4bbc4
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 #c4bbc4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c4bbc4-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?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