Color

#cca799

#cca799
hex#cca799
rgbrgb(204, 167, 153)
hslhsl(16, 33%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.758 0.048 41.8)
Closest name: Apricotta (#d8a48f)Relative luminance 0.4277

Colors that go with #cca799

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 #cca799

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#99becc

#cc99a5 · #ccc099

#99cca7 · #a799cc

Split-complementary

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#99ccc0 · #99a5cc

#a5cc99 · #99becc · #c099cc

Contrast

#cca799 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.2:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a36852 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #7a4e3e as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
9.55:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cca799 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

#cca799 reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cca799
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 #cca799 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cca799-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md