Mushroom
Open in tool →Taupe, oat and a sage accent — the quiet earth palette: almost neutral, with just enough colour to feel alive.
Color
#ccb99e
#ccb99e
hex
#ccb99ergb
rgb(204, 185, 158)hsl
hsl(35, 31%, 71%)oklch
oklch(0.795 0.043 76.6)Closest name: Baker’s Dozen (#ceb997)Relative luminance 0.5
Colors that go with #ccb99e
Charcoal, Cadet 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ccb99e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #ccb99e: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Estate, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Bramble and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #ccb99e, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #ccb99e: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clean Beauty, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ccb99e in 5 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #ccb99e in 5 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Undergrowth, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ccb99e: 4 real palettes, including Fitbit's brand system and Victoria's Secret's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
split-complementshippedSky Blue is a split-complement of #ccb99e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #ccb99e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ccb99e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.91:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11:1 | 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 #ccb99e 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
#ccb99e reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ccb99e
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #ccb99e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ccb99e-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md