Color
#cdca9d
#cdca9drgb(205, 202, 157)hsl(56, 32%, 71%)oklch(0.83 0.06 104.5)Colors that go with #cdca9d
Charcoal, Lilac and Sky 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 #cdca9d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #cdca9d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
split-complementshippedSky Blue is a split-complement of #cdca9d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including League of Legends's brand system and Uber's brand system put Blue beside #cdca9d, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #cdca9d: 5 real palettes, including Estate and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #cdca9d: 5 real palettes, including NBA's brand system and Webflow's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #cdca9d in 9 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Frost & Ember, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #cdca9d in 6 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Undergrowth, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #cdca9d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cdca9d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.68:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.53:1 | 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 #cdca9d 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
#cdca9d reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #cdca9d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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