Color

#c8aa6f

#c8aa6f
hex#c8aa6f
rgbrgb(200, 170, 111)
hslhsl(40, 45%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.751 0.085 83.6)
Closest name: Sand (#c2b280)Relative luminance 0.4218

Colors that go with #c8aa6f

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#6f8dc8

#c87e6f · #b9c86f

#6fc8aa · #aa6fc8

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#6fb9c8 · #7e6fc8

#6fc87e · #6f8dc8 · #c86fb9

Contrast

#c8aa6f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.23:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #907237 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #6b5529 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.23:1)
Aaon black
9.44:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c8aa6f as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#c8aa6f reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c8aa6f
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 #c8aa6f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c8aa6f-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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