Color
#ced9a0
#ced9a0rgb(206, 217, 160)hsl(72, 43%, 74%)oklch(0.863 0.076 116.9)Colors that go with #ced9a0
Charcoal, Lilac and Sky 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ced9a0: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #ced9a0 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
triadicshippedSky Blue completes a triad with #ced9a0 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet put Brown beside #ced9a0, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #ced9a0: 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Diner, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #ced9a0: 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clean Beauty, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #ced9a0: 4 real palettes, including NBA's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ced9a0 in 10 real palettes, including Diner and Frost & Ember, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #ced9a0
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ced9a0 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.49:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.06:1 | 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 #ced9a0 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
#ced9a0 reads as light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #ced9a0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/ced9a0-b5bea2-4e77df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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