Color

#c9ae9c

#c9ae9c
hex#c9ae9c
rgbrgb(201, 174, 156)
hslhsl(24, 29%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.769 0.04 55.7)
Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.4509

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9cb7c9

#c99ca1 · #c9c49c

#9cc9ae · #ae9cc9

Split-complementary

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#9cc9c4 · #9ca1c9

#a1c99c · #9cb7c9 · #c49cc9

Contrast

#c9ae9c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.1:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #946c51 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #70523e as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.22:1)
Aaon black
10.02:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c9ae9c 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

#c9ae9c reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c9ae9c
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 #c9ae9c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c9ae9c-c4b19c-62cbc2-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md