Color

#d5b4ae

#d5b4ae
hex#d5b4ae
rgbrgb(213, 180, 174)
hslhsl(9, 32%, 76%)
oklchoklch(0.797 0.039 30.1)
Closest name: Borlotti Bean (#d9b1aa)Relative luminance 0.4984

Colors that go with #d5b4ae

Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 #d5b4ae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aed0d5

#d5aebc · #d5c8ae

#aed5b4 · #b4aed5

Split-complementary

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#aed5c8 · #aebcd5

#bcd5ae · #aed0d5 · #c8aed5

Contrast

#d5b4ae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.91:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a86357 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #7d4940 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.09:1)
Aaon black
10.97:1passpasspassPasses 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 #d5b4ae as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#d5b4ae reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #d5b4ae
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 #d5b4ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/d5b4ae-c4a79c-62cba8-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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