Graphite Mono
Open in tool →Five greys, no hue — the true monochrome; the accent is a lighter grey, so hierarchy comes from weight and size alone.
Color
#c8bdb7
#c8bdb7
hex
#c8bdb7rgb
rgb(200, 189, 183)hsl
hsl(21, 13%, 75%)oklch
oklch(0.806 0.015 50.8)Closest name: Warm Gray (#c9c0bb)Relative luminance 0.5209
Colors that go with #c8bdb7
Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 text near-black that reads cleanly against #c8bdb7 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #c8bdb7 in 5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Bramble, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #c8bdb7 in 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #c8bdb7 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Undergrowth, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #c8bdb7 in 5 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #c8bdb7 in 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Canopy, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #c8bdb7 in 7 real palettes, including First Snow and Lavender Milk, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Peru #cd853f
shippedPeru is paired with #c8bdb7 in 4 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #c8bdb7
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c8bdb7 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.84:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.42:1 | 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 #c8bdb7 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
Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Fonts for this mood
#c8bdb7 reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c8bdb7
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 #c8bdb7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c8bdb7-c4af9c-62cbbd-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?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