Noir Beauty
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Color
#d0aa2f
#d0aa2f
hex
#d0aa2frgb
rgb(208, 170, 47)hsl
hsl(46, 63%, 50%)oklch
oklch(0.752 0.14 90.6)Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4236
Colors that go with #d0aa2f
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Deep 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 #d0aa2f: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #d0aa2f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #d0aa2f: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #d0aa2f: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #d0aa2f, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #d0aa2f: 4 real palettes, including Bramble and Bakery, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #d0aa2f in 5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Farmers Market, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #d0aa2f: 7 real palettes, including Open House and Gopro's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #d0aa2f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #d0aa2f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.22:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.47:1 | 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 #d0aa2f 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
#d0aa2f reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #d0aa2f
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 #d0aa2f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/d0aa2f-c4bf9c-62adcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?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