Color

#c9c8cb

#c9c8cb
hex#c9c8cb
rgbrgb(201, 200, 203)
hslhsl(260, 3%, 79%)
oklchoklch(0.834 0.004 301.4)
Closest name: Herring Silver (#c6c8cf)Relative luminance 0.5804

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cacbc8

#c8c8cb · #cbc8cb

#cbc9c8 · #c8cbc9

Split-complementary

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#cbcbc8 · #c8cbc8

#cbc8c8 · #cacbc8 · #c8cbcb

Contrast

#c9c8cb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.67:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #77747b as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #58575c as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #545454 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #383838 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
12.61:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c9c8cb 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

#c9c8cb reads as neutral, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c9c8cb
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 #c9c8cb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c9c8cb-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md