Color

#cdab9d

#cdab9d
hex#cdab9d
rgbrgb(205, 171, 157)
hslhsl(17, 32%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.768 0.045 43.6)
Closest name: Apricotta (#d8a48f)Relative luminance 0.4454

Colors that go with #cdab9d

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 #cdab9d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#9dbfcd

#cd9da8 · #cdc29d

#9dcdab · #ab9dcd

Split-complementary

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#9dcdc2 · #9da8cd

#a8cd9d · #9dbfcd · #c29dcd

Contrast

#cdab9d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.12:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9e6751 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #764d3d as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.14:1)
Aaon black
9.91:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cdab9d 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

#cdab9d reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cdab9d
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 #cdab9d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cdab9d-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md