Color

#d9ad87

#d9ad87
hex#d9ad87
rgbrgb(217, 173, 135)
hslhsl(28, 52%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.778 0.073 62.3)
Closest name: tan (#d2b48c)Relative luminance 0.4639

Colors that go with #d9ad87

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 #d9ad87

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#87b3d9

#d9878a · #d9d687

#87d9ad · #ad87d9

Split-complementary

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#87d9d6 · #878ad9

#8ad987 · #87b3d9 · #d687d9

Contrast

#d9ad87 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.04:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a36733 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #784c26 as the text (7.34:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
10.28:1passpasspassPasses 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 #d9ad87 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

#d9ad87 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #d9ad87
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 #d9ad87 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/d9ad87-c4b39c-62cbc9-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md