Color

#c8be79

#c8be79
hex#c8be79
rgbrgb(200, 190, 121)
hslhsl(52, 42%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.794 0.09 101.1)
Closest name: darkkhaki (#bdb76b)Relative luminance 0.5049

Colors that go with #c8be79

Charcoal, Lilac and Cadet Blue 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 #c8be79

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7984c8

#c89679 · #abc879

#79c8be · #be79c8

Split-complementary

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#79abc8 · #9679c8

#79c896 · #7984c8 · #c879ab

Contrast

#c8be79 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.89:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f7534 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #5e5726 as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.18:1)
Aaon black
11.1:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c8be79 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

#c8be79 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c8be79
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 #c8be79 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c8be79-c4c39c-4ea7df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md