Color

#cbaba9

#cbaba9
hex#cbaba9
rgbrgb(203, 171, 169)
hslhsl(4, 25%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.769 0.038 22.2)
Closest name: Borlotti Bean (#d9b1aa)Relative luminance 0.4469

Colors that go with #cbaba9

Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 #cbaba9

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a9c9cb

#cba9b8 · #cbbca9

#a9cbab · #aba9cb

Split-complementary

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#a9cbbc · #a9b8cb

#b8cba9 · #a9c9cb · #bca9cb

Contrast

#cbaba9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.11:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a16763 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #794c49 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.16:1)
Aaon black
9.94:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cbaba9 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

#cbaba9 reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cbaba9
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 #cbaba9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cbaba9-c4a39c-62cb9f-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md