Color

#cca299

#cca299
hex#cca299
rgbrgb(204, 162, 153)
hslhsl(11, 33%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.748 0.052 32.2)
Closest name: Apricotta (#d8a48f)Relative luminance 0.4098

Colors that go with #cca299

Charcoal, Sky Blue and Champagne 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 #cca299

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#99c2cc

#cc99a9 · #ccbc99

#99cca3 · #a399cc

Split-complementary

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#99ccbc · #99a9cc

#a9cc99 · #99c2cc · #bc99cc

Contrast

#cca299 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.28:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a66354 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #7d4b3f as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
9.2:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cca299 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

#cca299 reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cca299
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 #cca299 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cca299-c4a89c-62cbab-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md