Color

#cbae86

#cbae86
hex#cbae86
rgbrgb(203, 174, 134)
hslhsl(35, 40%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.766 0.064 75.5)
Closest name: tan (#d2b48c)Relative luminance 0.4469

Colors that go with #cbae86

Charcoal, Lilac and 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#86a3cb

#cb8b86 · #c5cb86

#86cbae · #ae86cb

Split-complementary

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#86c5cb · #8b86cb

#86cb8b · #86a3cb · #cb86c5

Contrast

#cbae86 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.11:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #92703f as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #6f542f as the text (7.03:1)
  • 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 #cbae86 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

#cbae86 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cbae86
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 #cbae86 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cbae86-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md