Color

#c4ccd9

#c4ccd9
hex#c4ccd9
rgbrgb(196, 204, 217)
hslhsl(217, 22%, 81%)
oklchoklch(0.843 0.02 260.2)
Closest name: Herring Silver (#c6c8cf)Relative luminance 0.5993

Colors that go with #c4ccd9

Charcoal, Amber and Brown 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#d9d1c4

#c4d7d9 · #c6c4d9

#d9c4cc · #ccd9c4

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#d9c6c4 · #d7d9c4

#d9c4d7 · #d9d1c4 · #c4d9c6

Contrast

#c4ccd9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.62:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #617798 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #485770 as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #545454 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #383838 (7.25:1)
Aaon black
12.99:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c4ccd9 as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#c4ccd9 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c4ccd9
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 #c4ccd9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c4ccd9-9ca7c4-df624e-201f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md