Stone
Open in tool →Stone greys with a faint warmth — Tailwind's stone scale used as a whole palette: interfaces that want to disappear.
Color
#cad3cd
#cad3cd
hex
#cad3cdrgb
rgb(202, 211, 205)hsl
hsl(140, 9%, 81%)oklch
oklch(0.858 0.013 157)Closest name: Concrete (#d2d1cd)Relative luminance 0.6355
Colors that go with #cad3cd
Charcoal, Amber 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #cad3cd without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #cad3cd in 5 real palettes, including Blueprint and Ember, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet put Brown beside #cad3cd, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #cad3cd: 6 real palettes, including Estate and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #cad3cd: 8 real palettes, including Bramble and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #cad3cd in 7 real palettes, including Frost & Ember and Cartier's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #cad3cd in 8 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #cad3cd: 8 real palettes, including Calendly's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #cad3cd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cad3cd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.53:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.71:1 | 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 #cad3cd 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
#cad3cd reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cad3cd
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 #cad3cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cad3cd-a2beaf-c259d4-1f2d2a-ebf1e9?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