Color

#c9a587

#c9a587
hex#c9a587
rgbrgb(201, 165, 135)
hslhsl(27, 38%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.747 0.059 61.5)
Closest name: Apricotta (#d8a48f)Relative luminance 0.4108

Colors that go with #c9a587

Charcoal, Sky Blue 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 #c9a587

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#87acc9

#c9878b · #c9c687

#87c9a5 · #a587c9

Split-complementary

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#87c9c6 · #878bc9

#8bc987 · #87acc9 · #c687c9

Contrast

#c9a587 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.28:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9b6c46 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #745134 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
9.22:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c9a587 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

#c9a587 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c9a587
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 #c9a587 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c9a587-c4b39c-62cbc7-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md