Color

#cdb99d

#cdb99d
hex#cdb99d
rgbrgb(205, 185, 157)
hslhsl(35, 32%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.795 0.044 76.2)
Closest name: Baker’s Dozen (#ceb997)Relative luminance 0.5011

Colors that go with #cdb99d

Charcoal, Lilac and Cadet Blue 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 #cdb99d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9db1cd

#cda19d · #c9cd9d

#9dcdb9 · #b99dcd

Split-complementary

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#9dc9cd · #a19dcd

#9dcda1 · #9db1cd · #cd9dc9

Contrast

#cdb99d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.91:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8d7149 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #685336 as the text (7.29:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.13:1)
Aaon black
11.02:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cdb99d 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

#cdb99d reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cdb99d
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 #cdb99d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cdb99d-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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