Color

#cda489

#cda489
hex#cda489
rgbrgb(205, 164, 137)
hslhsl(24, 40%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.749 0.061 54.9)
Closest name: Apricotta (#d8a48f)Relative luminance 0.4134

Colors that go with #cda489

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 #cda489

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#89b2cd

#cd8990 · #cdc689

#89cda4 · #a489cd

Split-complementary

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#89cdc6 · #8990cd

#90cd89 · #89b2cd · #c689cd

Contrast

#cda489 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.27:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a16a45 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #764d32 as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
9.27:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cda489 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

#cda489 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cda489
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 #cda489 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cda489-c4b19c-62cbc2-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md