Color

#c9db8a

#c9db8a
hex#c9db8a
rgbrgb(201, 219, 138)
hslhsl(73, 53%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.859 0.106 118.9)
Closest name: Alligator Alley (#c5d17b)Relative luminance 0.6492

Colors that go with #c9db8a

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.

Real palettes that use #c9db8a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9c8adb

#dbc48a · #a1db8a

#8ac9db · #db8ac9

Split-complementary

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#8aa1db · #c48adb

#8adbc4 · #9c8adb · #db8aa1

Contrast

#c9db8a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.5:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6a7d26 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #505e1d as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #595959 (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (7.23:1)
Aaon black
13.98:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c9db8a 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

#c9db8a reads as light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c9db8a
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 #c9db8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c9db8a-b5bea2-4e75df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md