Color

#c9be7e

#c9be7e
hex#c9be7e
rgbrgb(201, 190, 126)
hslhsl(51, 41%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.796 0.084 99.7)
Closest name: darkkhaki (#bdb76b)Relative luminance 0.5075

Colors that go with #c9be7e

Charcoal, Sky Blue and Lilac 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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#7e89c9

#c9987e · #aec97e

#7ec9be · #be7ec9

Split-complementary

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#7eaec9 · #987ec9

#7ec998 · #7e89c9 · #c97eae

Contrast

#c9be7e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.88:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #817636 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #615929 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.71:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
11.15:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c9be7e 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

#c9be7e reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c9be7e
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 #c9be7e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c9be7e-c4c29c-4eaadf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md