Color

#c4c8ca

#c4c8ca
hex#c4c8ca
rgbrgb(196, 200, 202)
hslhsl(200, 5%, 78%)
oklchoklch(0.83 0.005 228.8)
Closest name: Herring Silver (#c6c8cf)Relative luminance 0.5731

Colors that go with #c4c8ca

Charcoal, Dark Olive Green 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.

Real palettes that use #c4c8ca

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cac6c4

#c4cac9 · #c4c5ca

#cac4c8 · #c8cac4

Split-complementary

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#cac4c5 · #cac9c4

#c9c4ca · #cac6c4 · #c5cac4

Contrast

#c4c8ca as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.69:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6f777b as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #52585b as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #525252 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #363636 (7.17:1)
Aaon black
12.46:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c4c8ca 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

#c4c8ca reads as neutral, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c4c8ca
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 #c4c8ca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c4c8ca-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md