Macaron
Open in tool →Rose, sky and pistachio at patisserie strength — the pastel trio, with a plum-grey text colour so it never washes out.
Color
#c9eaae
#c9eaae
hex
#c9eaaergb
rgb(201, 234, 174)hsl
hsl(93, 59%, 80%)oklch
oklch(0.898 0.087 131.4)Closest name: Frozen Forest (#cfe8b6)Relative luminance 0.7432
Colors that go with #c9eaae
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #c9eaae: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
triadicshippedSky Blue completes a triad with #c9eaae — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #c9eaae on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #c9eaae in 6 real palettes, including Trailhead and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Bumble's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside #c9eaae, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Nursery and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #c9eaae, as the lead colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #c9eaae, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #c9eaae: 7 real palettes, including Diner and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #c9eaae
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c9eaae as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.32:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.86:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #c9eaae 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
#c9eaae reads as light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c9eaae
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #c9eaae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c9eaae-abbea2-584edf-202d1f-f0f1e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md