Mushroom
Open in tool →Taupe, oat and a sage accent — the quiet earth palette: almost neutral, with just enough colour to feel alive.
Color
#ceb8a6
#ceb8a6
hex
#ceb8a6rgb
rgb(206, 184, 166)hsl
hsl(27, 29%, 73%)oklch
oklch(0.796 0.035 61.6)Closest name: Attic Linen (#ccbca9)Relative luminance 0.5016
Colors that go with #ceb8a6
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ceb8a6: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
complementaryshippedSky Blue sits directly opposite #ceb8a6 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Bramble put Champagne beside #ceb8a6, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #ceb8a6: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ceb8a6 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 #ceb8a6 in 5 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Undergrowth, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ceb8a6: 5 real palettes, including Fitbit's brand system and Victoria's Secret's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #ceb8a6 in 5 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #ceb8a6
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ceb8a6 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.9:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.03:1 | 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 #ceb8a6 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
Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Dusty Blue
Open in tool →Dusty blue and mist with a nude accent — the quiet wedding palette; nothing here competes with a photograph.
Fonts for this mood
#ceb8a6 reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ceb8a6
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 #ceb8a6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ceb8a6-c4b39c-62cbc7-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?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