Color

#cca08e

#cca08e
hex#cca08e
rgbrgb(204, 160, 142)
hslhsl(17, 38%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.742 0.058 43.3)
Closest name: Apricotta (#d8a48f)Relative luminance 0.3993

Colors that go with #cca08e

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.

Real palettes that use #cca08e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8ebbcc

#cc8e9c · #ccbf8e

#8ecca0 · #a08ecc

Split-complementary

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#8eccbf · #8e9ccc

#9ccc8e · #8ebbcc · #bf8ecc

Contrast

#cca08e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.34:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a5644a as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #7b4b37 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.05:1)
Aaon black
8.99:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cca08e 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

#cca08e reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cca08e
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 #cca08e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cca08e-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md