Color

#cdbe74

#cdbe74
hex#cdbe74
rgbrgb(205, 190, 116)
hslhsl(50, 47%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.798 0.096 98.2)
Closest name: darkkhaki (#bdb76b)Relative luminance 0.5107

Colors that go with #cdbe74

Charcoal, Sky Blue and Lilac 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 #cdbe74

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7483cd

#cd9274 · #afcd74

#74cdbe · #be74cd

Split-complementary

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#74afcd · #9274cd

#74cd92 · #7483cd · #cd74af

Contrast

#cdbe74 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.87:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #83752f as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #615723 as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
11.21:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cdbe74 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#cdbe74 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cdbe74
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 #cdbe74 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cdbe74-c4c29c-4eacdf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md