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
#d2b16argb(210, 177, 106)hsl(41, 54%, 62%)oklch(0.774 0.098 85.2)Charcoal, Deep 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.
Charcoal is the body-text near-black for #d2b16a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #d2b16a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Lilac sits directly opposite #d2b16a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Designers have shipped Cadet Blue with #d2b16a: 6 real palettes, including Open House and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Bramble put Champagne beside #d2b16a, as that palette's text colour.
Designers have shipped Copper with #d2b16a: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Bramble, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Cornflower Blue with #d2b16a: 6 real palettes, including Gopro's brand system and Webflow's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson is paired with #d2b16a in 6 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Tequila Sunrise, as the lead colour.
| #d2b16a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.05:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.24:1 | 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 #d2b16a as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#d2b16a reads as warm. 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 #d2b16a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/d2b16a-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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