Color

#ccb5ad

#ccb5ad
hex#ccb5ad
rgbrgb(204, 181, 173)
hslhsl(15, 23%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.79 0.029 40.2)
Closest name: Borlotti Bean (#d9b1aa)Relative luminance 0.489

Colors that go with #ccb5ad

Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 #ccb5ad

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#adc4cc

#ccadb5 · #ccc4ad

#adccb5 · #b5adcc

Split-complementary

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#adccc4 · #adb5cc

#b5ccad · #adc4cc · #c4adcc

Contrast

#ccb5ad as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.95:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #976c5e as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #715147 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.27:1)
Aaon black
10.78:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ccb5ad as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ccb5ad reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ccb5ad
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 #ccb5ad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ccb5ad-c4ab9c-62cbb2-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md