Color

#c9d0ae

#c9d0ae
hex#c9d0ae
rgbrgb(201, 208, 174)
hslhsl(72, 27%, 75%)
oklchoklch(0.843 0.046 116.9)
Closest name: Bitter Melon (#cfd1b2)Relative luminance 0.6059

Colors that go with #c9d0ae

Charcoal, Lilac 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 #c9d0ae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b5aed0

#d0c6ae · #b8d0ae

#aecad0 · #d0aeca

Split-complementary

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#aeb8d0 · #c6aed0

#aed0c6 · #b5aed0 · #d0aeb8

Contrast

#c9d0ae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.6:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #717b47 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #535b34 as the text (7.21:1)
  • 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 #c9d0ae 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

#c9d0ae reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c9d0ae
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 #c9d0ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c9d0ae-b5bea2-4e77df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md