Color

#cda970

#cda970
hex#cda970
rgbrgb(205, 169, 112)
hslhsl(37, 48%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.754 0.085 78.4)
Closest name: Sand (#c2b280)Relative luminance 0.4252

Colors that go with #cda970

Charcoal, Sky Blue and Blush Pink 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#7093cd

#cd7a70 · #c2cd70

#70cda9 · #a970cd

Split-complementary

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#70c2cd · #7a70cd

#70cd7a · #7093cd · #cd70c2

Contrast

#cda970 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.21:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #936f34 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #6d5226 as the text (7.28:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
9.5:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cda970 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#cda970 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cda970
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 #cda970 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cda970-c4b99c-62bdcb-2c2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md