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
#cdb179
#cdb179
hex
#cdb179rgb
rgb(205, 177, 121)hsl
hsl(40, 46%, 64%)oklch
oklch(0.772 0.08 84.1)Closest name: Sand (#c2b280)Relative luminance 0.458
Colors that go with #cdb179
Charcoal, Lilac 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #cdb179: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #cdb179 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #cdb179: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Open House, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Bramble put Champagne beside #cdb179, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #cdb179: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Bramble, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #cdb179: 5 real palettes, including Webflow's brand system and Gopro's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #cdb179 in 6 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Cartier's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #cdb179 in 5 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #cdb179
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cdb179 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.07:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.16:1 | 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 #cdb179 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
#cdb179 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cdb179
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 #cdb179 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cdb179-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-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