Color

#cda38e

#cda38e
hex#cda38e
rgbrgb(205, 163, 142)
hslhsl(20, 39%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.748 0.058 47.9)
Closest name: Apricotta (#d8a48f)Relative luminance 0.4113

Colors that go with #cda38e

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 #cda38e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8eb8cd

#cd8e98 · #cdc38e

#8ecda3 · #a38ecd

Split-complementary

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#8ecdc3 · #8e98cd

#98cd8e · #8eb8cd · #c38ecd

Contrast

#cda38e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.28:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a36648 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #794b35 as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
9.23:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cda38e 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

#cda38e reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cda38e
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 #cda38e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cda38e-c4ae9c-62cbbb-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md