Garden Wedding
Open in tool →Sage green, blush and a soft gold on ivory — the wedding palette of the decade, with text dark enough for an actual invitation.
Color
#c8a96a
#c8a96a
hex
#c8a96argb
rgb(200, 169, 106)hsl
hsl(40, 46%, 60%)oklch
oklch(0.748 0.089 84.2)Closest name: Sand (#c2b280)Relative luminance 0.417
Colors that go with #c8a96a
Charcoal, Lilac and Blush Pink 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #c8a96a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #c8a96a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #c8a96a in 4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Estate, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #c8a96a in 6 real palettes, including Open House and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #c8a96a in 6 real palettes, including Bramble and Midnight Luxe, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #c8a96a in 5 real palettes, including Bramble and Desert Road, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #c8a96a in 6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #c8a96a in 5 real palettes, including Bramble and Velvet, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #c8a96a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c8a96a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.25:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.34:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #c8a96a 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
#c8a96a reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c8a96a
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #c8a96a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c8a96a-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md