Color

#c8a974

#c8a974
hex#c8a974
rgbrgb(200, 169, 116)
hslhsl(38, 43%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.75 0.079 80.5)
Closest name: Sand (#c2b280)Relative luminance 0.4192

Colors that go with #c8a974

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.

Real palettes that use #c8a974

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7493c8

#c88074 · #bdc874

#74c8a9 · #a974c8

Split-complementary

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#74bdc8 · #8074c8

#74c880 · #7493c8 · #c874bd

Contrast

#c8a974 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.24:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8e6f39 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #6d552c as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.19:1)
Aaon black
9.38:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c8a974 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

#c8a974 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c8a974
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 #c8a974 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c8a974-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md