Color

#c5ae96

#c5ae96
hex#c5ae96
rgbrgb(197, 174, 150)
hslhsl(31, 29%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.764 0.043 68.3)
Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.4434

Colors that go with #c5ae96

Charcoal, Sky Blue and Champagne 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 #c5ae96

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#96adc5

#c59796 · #c4c596

#96c5ae · #ae96c5

Split-complementary

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#96c4c5 · #9796c5

#96c597 · #96adc5 · #c596c4

Contrast

#c5ae96 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.13:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8d6f4e as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #69523a as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
9.87:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c5ae96 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

#c5ae96 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c5ae96
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 #c5ae96 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c5ae96-c4b59c-62c7cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md