Estate
Open in tool →Bronze on charcoal signals premium listings; the silver accent handles secondary detail without adding color.
Color
#c9c8bb
#c9c8bb
hex
#c9c8bbrgb
rgb(201, 200, 187)hsl
hsl(56, 11%, 76%)oklch
oklch(0.83 0.018 103.2)Closest name: Brume (#c6c6c2)Relative luminance 0.5731
Colors that go with #c9c8bb
Charcoal, Dark Olive Green and Deep Sky Blue 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 #c9c8bb without the hard edge of pure #000.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #c9c8bb in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #c9c8bb in 6 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #c9c8bb in 4 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #c9c8bb in 5 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Desert Road, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #c9c8bb in 8 real palettes, including First Snow and Allbirds's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Peru #cd853f
shippedPeru is paired with #c9c8bb in 4 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #c9c8bb in 8 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Stone, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #c9c8bb
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c9c8bb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.69:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.46:1 | 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 #c9c8bb 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
#c9c8bb reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c9c8bb
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 #c9c8bb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c9c8bb-bdbea2-4e9edf-282d1f-f1ede9?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