Color

#c5bdaa

#c5bdaa
hex#c5bdaa
rgbrgb(197, 189, 170)
hslhsl(42, 19%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.8 0.028 87.9)
Closest name: Another One Bites the Dust (#c7bba4)Relative luminance 0.5117

Colors that go with #c5bdaa

Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 #c5bdaa

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aab2c5

#c5afaa · #c0c5aa

#aac5bd · #bdaac5

Split-complementary

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#aac0c5 · #afaac5

#aac5af · #aab2c5 · #c5aac0

Contrast

#c5bdaa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.87:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f7357 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #615842 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
11.23:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c5bdaa 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

#c5bdaa reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c5bdaa
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 #c5bdaa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c5bdaa-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md