Color

#d6a09e

#d6a09e
hex#d6a09e
rgbrgb(214, 160, 158)
hslhsl(2, 41%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.756 0.065 21.1)
Closest name: Apricotta (#d8a48f)Relative luminance 0.4191

Colors that go with #d6a09e

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 #d6a09e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9ed4d6

#d69eb8 · #d6bc9e

#9ed6a0 · #a09ed6

Split-complementary

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#9ed6bc · #9eb8d6

#b8d69e · #9ed4d6 · #bc9ed6

Contrast

#d6a09e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.24:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b85956 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #903f3c as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.19:1)
Aaon black
9.38:1passpasspassPasses 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 #d6a09e 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

#d6a09e reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #d6a09e
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 #d6a09e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/d6a09e-c4a29c-62cb9c-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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