Color

#caa996

#caa996
hex#caa996
rgbrgb(202, 169, 150)
hslhsl(22, 33%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.759 0.047 51.6)
Closest name: Apricotta (#d8a48f)Relative luminance 0.4313

Colors that go with #caa996

Charcoal, Sky Blue and Champagne 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 #caa996

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#96b7ca

#ca969d · #cac396

#96caa9 · #a996ca

Split-complementary

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#96cac3 · #969dca

#9dca96 · #96b7ca · #c396ca

Contrast

#caa996 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.18:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9c6b4f as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #734f3a as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
9.63:1passpasspassPasses 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 #caa996 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

#caa996 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #caa996
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 #caa996 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/caa996-c4af9c-62cbbf-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md