Harvest
Open in tool →Pumpkin, straw and burnt gold on parchment — the autumn palette that still feels like a product, not a place-mat.
Color
#d8980e
#d8980e
hex
#d8980ergb
rgb(216, 152, 14)hsl
hsl(41, 88%, 45%)oklch
oklch(0.724 0.148 78)Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.3709
Colors that go with #d8980e
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Deep 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #d8980e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #d8980e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #d8980e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including League of Legends's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #d8980e, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #d8980e in 4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Kiln, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #d8980e: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #d8980e, as that palette's text colour.
Chocolate #d2691e
shippedChocolate shows up next to #d8980e in 4 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Homestead, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #d8980e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #d8980e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.49:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.42:1 | 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 #d8980e 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
#d8980e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #d8980e
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 #d8980e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/d8980e-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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