Forest Floor
Open in tool →Moss and bark with a mushroom-cap amber — grounded and quiet, made for long-form nature content.
Color
#d4a359
#d4a359
hex
#d4a359rgb
rgb(212, 163, 89)hsl
hsl(36, 59%, 59%)oklch
oklch(0.746 0.109 76.1)Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4091
Colors that go with #d4a359
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and 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 #d4a359: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #d4a359 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including League of Legends's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #d4a359, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #d4a359: 6 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 #d4a359, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #d4a359: 5 real palettes, including Bramble and Bakery, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #d4a359: 5 real palettes, including Gopro's brand system and Webflow's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #d4a359 in 5 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Tequila Sunrise, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #d4a359
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #d4a359 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.29:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.18:1 | 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 #d4a359 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#d4a359 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #d4a359
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 #d4a359 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/d4a359-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?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