Color

#d8a488

#d8a488
hex#d8a488
rgbrgb(216, 164, 136)
hslhsl(21, 51%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.76 0.073 49.5)
Closest name: Apricotta (#d8a48f)Relative luminance 0.4293

Colors that go with #d8a488

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 #d8a488

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#88bcd8

#d88894 · #d8cc88

#88d8a4 · #a488d8

Split-complementary

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#88d8cc · #8894d8

#94d888 · #88bcd8 · #cc88d8

Contrast

#d8a488 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.19:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ad6138 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #83492a as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.09:1)
Aaon black
9.59:1passpasspassPasses 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 #d8a488 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

#d8a488 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #d8a488
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 #d8a488 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/d8a488-c4af9c-62cbbd-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md