Ledger Dark
Open in tool →Gold on midnight is the private-banking cue; the mint accent keeps it from feeling old-money stuffy.
Color
#c2a642
#c2a642
hex
#c2a642rgb
rgb(194, 166, 66)hsl
hsl(47, 51%, 51%)oklch
oklch(0.731 0.122 93.4)Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.3914
Colors that go with #c2a642
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Deep 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 #c2a642: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #c2a642 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #c2a642: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including League of Legends's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #c2a642, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #c2a642: 6 real palettes, including Open House and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #c2a642, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #c2a642: 5 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #c2a642 in 6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #c2a642
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c2a642 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.38:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.83:1 | 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 #c2a642 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
Sapphire & Gold
Open in tool →Deep sapphire and gold with a teal — old-money jewel tones on an ivory ground; heraldic without a crest.
Candlelight
Open in tool →Burgundy, gold and a blush on warm white — the evening wedding set; burgundy carries the formality, blush the softness.
Fonts for this mood
#c2a642 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c2a642
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 #c2a642 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c2a642-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?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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