Color

#c5bf96

#c5bf96
hex#c5bf96
rgbrgb(197, 191, 150)
hslhsl(52, 29%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.799 0.056 100.6)
Closest name: Beige and Sage (#bbc199)Relative luminance 0.5133

Colors that go with #c5bf96

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 #c5bf96

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#969cc5

#c5a796 · #b4c596

#96c5bf · #bf96c5

Split-complementary

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#96b4c5 · #a796c5

#96c5a7 · #969cc5 · #c596b4

Contrast

#c5bf96 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.86:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d7645 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #5c5733 as the text (7.33:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
11.27:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c5bf96 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

#c5bf96 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c5bf96
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 #c5bf96 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c5bf96-c4c39c-4ea7df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md