Color

#c5beaf

#c5beaf
hex#c5beaf
rgbrgb(197, 190, 175)
hslhsl(41, 16%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.803 0.022 86)
Closest name: Attic Linen (#ccbca9)Relative luminance 0.5179

Colors that go with #c5beaf

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#afb6c5

#c5b3af · #c1c5af

#afc5be · #beafc5

Split-complementary

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#afc1c5 · #b3afc5

#afc5b3 · #afb6c5 · #c5afc1

Contrast

#c5beaf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.85:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f745c as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5645 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.14:1)
Aaon black
11.36:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c5beaf 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

#c5beaf reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c5beaf
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 #c5beaf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c5beaf-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md