Color

#c9a982

#c9a982
hex#c9a982
rgbrgb(201, 169, 130)
hslhsl(33, 40%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.754 0.065 72.1)
Closest name: Sand (#c2b280)Relative luminance 0.4241

Colors that go with #c9a982

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#82a2c9

#c98682 · #c6c982

#82c9a9 · #a982c9

Split-complementary

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#82c6c9 · #8682c9

#82c986 · #82a2c9 · #c982c6

Contrast

#c9a982 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.21:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #966f40 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #6f522f as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
9.48:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c9a982 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

#c9a982 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c9a982
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 #c9a982 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c9a982-c4b79c-62c4cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md