Midnight Luxe
Open in tool →Champagne gold on ink-navy with a violet undertone — hotels and spirits use it because it reads expensive at any size.
Color
#c4b178
#c4b178
hex
#c4b178rgb
rgb(196, 177, 120)hsl
hsl(45, 39%, 62%)oklch
oklch(0.763 0.078 91.8)Closest name: Sand (#c2b280)Relative luminance 0.4454
Colors that go with #c4b178
Charcoal, Lilac and Cadet 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 #c4b178: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #c4b178 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #c4b178: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Open House, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Bramble put Champagne beside #c4b178, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #c4b178: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Bramble, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #c4b178: 5 real palettes, including Webflow's brand system and Gopro's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #c4b178 in 4 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Cartier's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #c4b178 in 6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #c4b178
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c4b178 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.12:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.91:1 | 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 #c4b178 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#c4b178 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c4b178
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 #c4b178 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c4b178-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-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