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
#caad68
#caad68
hex
#caad68rgb
rgb(202, 173, 104)hsl
hsl(42, 48%, 60%)oklch
oklch(0.758 0.094 87.4)Closest name: Sand (#c2b280)Relative luminance 0.4344
Colors that go with #caad68
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Lilac 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 #caad68: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #caad68: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #caad68 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #caad68 in 4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Rain Garden, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #caad68 in 5 real palettes, including Open House and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #caad68 in 6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Bramble, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #caad68 in 5 real palettes, including Bramble and Desert Road, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #caad68 in 4 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Tequila Sunrise, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #caad68
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #caad68 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.17:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.69:1 | 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 #caad68 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#caad68 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #caad68
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 #caad68 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/caad68-c4bc9c-62b4cb-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