Color
#cbd5aa
#cbd5aargb(203, 213, 170)hsl(74, 34%, 75%)oklch(0.854 0.059 118.3)Colors that go with #cbd5aa
Charcoal, Lilac and Sky 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #cbd5aa: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #cbd5aa on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
triadicshippedSky Blue completes a triad with #cbd5aa — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Bumble's brand system put Blue beside #cbd5aa, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet put Brown beside #cbd5aa, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #cbd5aa: 5 real palettes, including Estate and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #cbd5aa: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clean Beauty, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #cbd5aa: 4 real palettes, including Blueprint and NBA's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #cbd5aa
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cbd5aa as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.54:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.64:1 | 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 #cbd5aa 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
#cbd5aa reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #cbd5aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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