Color

#c9cfba

#c9cfba
hex#c9cfba
rgbrgb(201, 207, 186)
hslhsl(77, 18%, 77%)
oklchoklch(0.844 0.029 120)
Closest name: Bitter Melon (#cfd1b2)Relative luminance 0.6059

Colors that go with #c9cfba

Charcoal, Amber and Brown 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.

Real palettes that use #c9cfba

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#c0bacf

#cfcaba · #becfba

#bac9cf · #cfbac9

Split-complementary

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#babecf · #cabacf

#bacfca · #c0bacf · #cfbabe

Contrast

#c9cfba as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.6:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6e7854 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #525a3f as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #575757 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #383838 (7.32:1)
Aaon black
13.12:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c9cfba 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

#c9cfba reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c9cfba
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 #c9cfba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c9cfba-b3bea2-4e6bdf-232d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md