Estate
Open in tool →Bronze on charcoal signals premium listings; the silver accent handles secondary detail without adding color.
Color
#cec5ba
#cec5ba
hex
#cec5bargb
rgb(206, 197, 186)hsl
hsl(33, 17%, 77%)oklch
oklch(0.828 0.018 73)Closest name: Brume (#c6c6c2)Relative luminance 0.566
Colors that go with #cec5ba
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Crimson 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 text near-black that reads cleanly against #cec5ba without the hard edge of pure #000.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #cec5ba: 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Blueprint, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #cec5ba in 5 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Frost & Ember, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #cec5ba in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #cec5ba: 6 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #cec5ba in 4 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #cec5ba in 5 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped9 real palettes, including First Snow and Allbirds's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #cec5ba, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #cec5ba
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cec5ba as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.7:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.32:1 | 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 #cec5ba 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.
Fonts for this mood
#cec5ba reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cec5ba
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 #cec5ba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cec5ba-c4b79c-62c4cb-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