Color
#cc9e85
#cc9e85rgb(204, 158, 133)hsl(21, 41%, 66%)oklch(0.736 0.065 49.8)Colors that go with #cc9e85
Charcoal, Sky Blue and Cadet 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 #cc9e85: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
complementaryshippedSky Blue sits directly opposite #cc9e85 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #cc9e85: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Paper & Pine, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and Darkroom put Champagne beside #cc9e85, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #cc9e85: 5 real palettes, including Bramble and Bakery, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #cc9e85 in 6 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Retro Pop, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #cc9e85 in 6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #cc9e85: 7 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #cc9e85
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cc9e85 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.39:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.8:1 | 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 #cc9e85 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
#cc9e85 reads as warm. 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 #cc9e85 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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