Color

#c9df96

#c9df96
hex#c9df96
rgbrgb(201, 223, 150)
hslhsl(78, 53%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.87 0.098 122.1)
Closest name: Basil Smash (#b7e1a1)Relative luminance 0.6739

Colors that go with #c9df96

Charcoal, Lilac and 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.

Real palettes that use #c9df96

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ac96df

#dfd096 · #a4df96

#96c9df · #df96c9

Split-complementary

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#96a4df · #d096df

#96dfd0 · #ac96df · #df96a4

Contrast

#c9df96 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.45:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #637d26 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #4a5e1d as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #5c5c5c (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #404040 (7.15:1)
Aaon black
14.48:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c9df96 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

#c9df96 reads as light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c9df96
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 #c9df96 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c9df96-b2bea2-4e69df-232d1f-f1f0e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md