Color

#cea278

#cea278
hex#cea278
rgbrgb(206, 162, 120)
hslhsl(29, 47%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.743 0.077 64.9)
Closest name: Apricotta (#d8a48f)Relative luminance 0.4032

Colors that go with #cea278

Charcoal, Sky Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#78a5ce

#ce7879 · #cecd78

#78cea2 · #a278ce

Split-complementary

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#78cecd · #7879ce

#79ce78 · #78a5ce · #cd78ce

Contrast

#cea278 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.32:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9d6939 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #78502b as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.11:1)
Aaon black
9.06:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cea278 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

#cea278 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cea278
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 #cea278 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cea278-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md