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
#d9cdc9
#d9cdc9
hex
#d9cdc9rgb
rgb(217, 205, 201)hsl
hsl(15, 17%, 82%)oklch
oklch(0.857 0.015 39.4)Closest name: Concrete (#d2d1cd)Relative luminance 0.6263
Colors that go with #d9cdc9
Charcoal, Amber and Brown 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 #d9cdc9 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #d9cdc9 in 5 real palettes, including Blueprint and Ember, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet put Brown beside #d9cdc9, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #d9cdc9: 5 real palettes, including Estate and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #d9cdc9: 8 real palettes, including Bramble and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #d9cdc9 in 7 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Frost & Ember, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #d9cdc9 in 8 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #d9cdc9: 8 real palettes, including Calendly's brand system and Blueprint, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #d9cdc9
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #d9cdc9 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.55:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.53:1 | 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 #d9cdc9 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
#d9cdc9 reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #d9cdc9
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 #d9cdc9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/d9cdc9-c4ab9c-62cbb2-2d291f-f1e9eb?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