Color

#c5bb96

#c5bb96
hex#c5bb96
rgbrgb(197, 187, 150)
hslhsl(47, 29%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.791 0.051 94.7)
Closest name: Baker’s Dozen (#ceb997)Relative luminance 0.4961

Colors that go with #c5bb96

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 #c5bb96

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#96a0c5

#c5a396 · #b8c596

#96c5bb · #bb96c5

Split-complementary

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#96b8c5 · #a396c5

#96c5a3 · #96a0c5 · #c596b8

Contrast

#c5bb96 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.92:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #807447 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5635 as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.06:1)
Aaon black
10.92:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c5bb96 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

#c5bb96 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c5bb96
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 #c5bb96 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c5bb96-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md