Color

#d5a481

#d5a481
hex#d5a481
rgbrgb(213, 164, 129)
hslhsl(25, 50%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.756 0.075 56.8)
Closest name: Apricotta (#d8a48f)Relative luminance 0.4228

Colors that go with #d5a481

Charcoal, Sky Blue and Cadet 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 #d5a481

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#81b2d5

#d58188 · #d5ce81

#81d5a4 · #a481d5

Split-complementary

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#81d5ce · #8188d5

#88d581 · #81b2d5 · #ce81d5

Contrast

#d5a481 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.22:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a86738 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #7e4d2a as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.25:1)
Aaon black
9.46:1passpasspassPasses 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 #d5a481 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

#d5a481 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #d5a481
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 #d5a481 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/d5a481-c4b19c-62cbc4-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md