Color

#c9a597

#c9a597
hex#c9a597
rgbrgb(201, 165, 151)
hslhsl(17, 32%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.75 0.047 42.3)
Closest name: Apricotta (#d8a48f)Relative luminance 0.4156

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#97bbc9

#c997a2 · #c9be97

#97c9a5 · #a597c9

Split-complementary

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#97c9be · #97a2c9

#a2c997 · #97bbc9 · #be97c9

Contrast

#c9a597 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.26:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9e6751 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #764d3d as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.14:1)
Aaon black
9.31:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c9a597 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

#c9a597 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c9a597
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 #c9a597 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c9a597-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md