Color
#c9abb6
#c9abb6rgb(201, 171, 182)hsl(338, 22%, 73%)oklch(0.771 0.038 353.9)Colors that go with #c9abb6
Charcoal, Emerald Green and Dark Sea Green 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 body-text near-black for #c9abb6: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Emerald Green #50c878
split-complementshippedEmerald Green is a split-complement of #c9abb6: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Sea Green #8fbc8f
complementaryshippedDark Sea Green sits directly opposite #c9abb6 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Bramble put Champagne beside #c9abb6, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #c9abb6: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #c9abb6 in 4 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #c9abb6 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Undergrowth, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #c9abb6: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Victoria's Secret's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #c9abb6
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c9abb6 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.1:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.98:1 | 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 #c9abb6 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
#c9abb6 reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #c9abb6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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