Color

#c4be97

#c4be97
hex#c4be97
rgbrgb(196, 190, 151)
hslhsl(52, 28%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.796 0.053 100.2)
Closest name: Animal Kingdom (#bcc09e)Relative luminance 0.508

Colors that go with #c4be97

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 #c4be97

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#979dc4

#c4a797 · #b3c497

#97c4be · #be97c4

Split-complementary

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#97b3c4 · #a797c4

#97c4a7 · #979dc4 · #c497b3

Contrast

#c4be97 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.88:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c7546 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5935 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.71:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
11.16:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c4be97 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

#c4be97 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c4be97
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 #c4be97 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c4be97-c4c39c-4ea7df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md