Color

#c8a979

#c8a979
hex#c8a979
rgbrgb(200, 169, 121)
hslhsl(36, 42%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.751 0.073 78.2)
Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.4204

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7999c8

#c88179 · #c0c879

#79c8a9 · #a979c8

Split-complementary

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#79c0c8 · #8179c8

#79c881 · #7999c8 · #c879c0

Contrast

#c8a979 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.23:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #916f3b as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #6d532c as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.21:1)
Aaon black
9.41:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c8a979 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

#c8a979 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c8a979
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #c8a979 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c8a979-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md