Color

#c9b5bb

#c9b5bb
hex#c9b5bb
rgbrgb(201, 181, 187)
hslhsl(342, 16%, 75%)
oklchoklch(0.792 0.024 357.5)
Closest name: Dust to Dust (#bbbcbc)Relative luminance 0.4905

Colors that go with #c9b5bb

Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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

Open in tool →

#b5c9c3

#c9b5c5 · #c9b9b5

#bbc9b5 · #b5bbc9

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#b5c9b9 · #b5c5c9

#c5c9b5 · #b5c9c3 · #b9b5c9

Contrast

#c9b5bb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.94:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #946b77 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #6d4f58 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.29:1)
Aaon black
10.81:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c9b5bb 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

#c9b5bb reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c9b5bb
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 #c9b5bb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c9b5bb-c49ca3-62cb79-2d211f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md