Color

#cda279

#cda279
hex#cda279
rgbrgb(205, 162, 121)
hslhsl(29, 46%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.742 0.075 64.9)
Closest name: Apricotta (#d8a48f)Relative luminance 0.402

Colors that go with #cda279

Charcoal, Sky Blue 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.

Real palettes that use #cda279

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#79a5cd

#cd797a · #cdcc79

#79cda2 · #a279cd

Split-complementary

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#79cdcc · #797acd

#7acd79 · #79a5cd · #cc79cd

Contrast

#cda279 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.32:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9c693a as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #77502c as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.1:1)
Aaon black
9.04:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cda279 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

#cda279 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cda279
live endpoint

Point 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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #cda279 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cda279-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md