Oatmeal
Open in tool →Four warm greys from bark to oat — the neutral palette that photographs well and never argues with a product shot.
Color
#d9cdb4
#d9cdb4
hex
#d9cdb4rgb
rgb(217, 205, 180)hsl
hsl(41, 33%, 78%)oklch
oklch(0.851 0.036 85.4)Closest name: Bitter Melon (#cfd1b2)Relative luminance 0.6171
Colors that go with #d9cdb4
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 #d9cdb4: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #d9cdb4 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
split-complementshippedSky Blue is a split-complement of #d9cdb4: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet put Brown beside #d9cdb4, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #d9cdb4: 5 real palettes, including Estate and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #d9cdb4: 7 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #d9cdb4: 4 real palettes, including Blueprint and Blue Mono, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #d9cdb4 in 7 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Frost & Ember, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #d9cdb4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #d9cdb4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.57:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.34:1 | 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 #d9cdb4 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
#d9cdb4 reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #d9cdb4
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 #d9cdb4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/d9cdb4-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?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