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
#c4c2bf
#c4c2bf
hex
#c4c2bfrgb
rgb(196, 194, 191)hsl
hsl(36, 4%, 76%)oklch
oklch(0.815 0.005 78.3)Closest name: Explosive Grey (#c4c4c4)Relative luminance 0.5408
Colors that go with #c4c2bf
Charcoal, Copper and Deep Sky 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #c4c2bf without the hard edge of pure #000.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #c4c2bf: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #c4c2bf: 6 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #c4c2bf: 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 #c4c2bf in 4 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped10 real palettes, including First Snow and Lavender Milk put Midnight Blue beside #c4c2bf, as the text colour against it.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln put Peru beside #c4c2bf, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #c4c2bf: 6 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Stone, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #c4c2bf
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c4c2bf as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.78:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.82:1 | 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 #c4c2bf 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
#c4c2bf reads as neutral, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c4c2bf
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 #c4c2bf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c4c2bf-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