Color

#cbc9d4

#cbc9d4
hex#cbc9d4
rgbrgb(203, 201, 212)
hslhsl(251, 11%, 81%)
oklchoklch(0.841 0.015 294.4)
Closest name: Herring Silver (#c6c8cf)Relative luminance 0.5922

Colors that go with #cbc9d4

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#d2d4c9

#c9cdd4 · #d1c9d4

#d4cbc9 · #c9d4cb

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#d4d1c9 · #cdd4c9

#d4c9cd · #d2d4c9 · #c9d4d1

Contrast

#cbc9d4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.63:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #77718e as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #5a566c as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #545454 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #383838 (7.17:1)
Aaon black
12.84:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cbc9d4 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#cbc9d4 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cbc9d4
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 #cbc9d4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cbc9d4-a89cc4-dfb34e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md