Graphite Mono
Open in tool →Five greys, no hue — the true monochrome; the accent is a lighter grey, so hierarchy comes from weight and size alone.
Color
#c9baba
#c9baba
hex
#c9babargb
rgb(201, 186, 186)hsl
hsl(0, 12%, 76%)oklch
oklch(0.801 0.017 17.5)Closest name: Warm Gray (#c9c0bb)Relative luminance 0.5108
Colors that go with #c9baba
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #c9baba without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Bramble put Champagne beside #c9baba, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #c9baba: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #c9baba in 5 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 #c9baba in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Undergrowth, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #c9baba: 4 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Calendly's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #c9baba: 4 real palettes, including Fitbit's brand system and Victoria's Secret's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #c9baba in 4 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #c9baba
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c9baba as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.87:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.22:1 | 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 #c9baba 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
#c9baba reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c9baba
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #c9baba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c9baba-c4a19c-62cb98-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md