Color

#d4d196

#d4d196
hex#d4d196
rgbrgb(212, 209, 150)
hslhsl(57, 42%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.849 0.077 105.5)
Closest name: Ancestral Gold (#ddcda6)Relative luminance 0.618

Colors that go with #d4d196

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.

Real palettes that use #d4d196

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9699d4

#d4b296 · #b8d496

#96d4d1 · #d196d4

Split-complementary

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#96b8d4 · #b296d4

#96d4b2 · #9699d4 · #d496b8

Contrast

#d4d196 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.57:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b7732 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #5b5825 as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #575757 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (7.13:1)
Aaon black
13.36:1passpasspassPasses 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 #d4d196 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

#d4d196 reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #d4d196
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #d4d196 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/d4d196-bcbea2-4e9bdf-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md