Ledger Dark
Open in tool →Gold on midnight is the private-banking cue; the mint accent keeps it from feeling old-money stuffy.
Color
#d2a614
#d2a614
hex
#d2a614rgb
rgb(210, 166, 20)hsl
hsl(46, 83%, 45%)oklch
oklch(0.745 0.149 88.9)Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4102
Colors that go with #d2a614
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 #d2a614: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #d2a614 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 #d2a614: 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 #d2a614: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #d2a614, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #d2a614 in 5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Farmers Market, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #d2a614: 7 real palettes, including Open House and Gopro's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #d2a614: 6 real palettes, including Liquid Death's brand system and PostHog's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #d2a614
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #d2a614 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.28:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.2:1 | 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 #d2a614 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
Sapphire & Gold
Open in tool →Deep sapphire and gold with a teal — old-money jewel tones on an ivory ground; heraldic without a crest.
Candlelight
Open in tool →Burgundy, gold and a blush on warm white — the evening wedding set; burgundy carries the formality, blush the softness.
Fonts for this mood
#d2a614 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #d2a614
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 #d2a614 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/d2a614-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