Mid-Century
Open in tool →Tangerine, teal and mustard on cream — the 1960s lounge trio, one of the few retro palettes with real hue contrast.
Color
#da7f34
#da7f34
hex
#da7f34rgb
rgb(218, 127, 52)hsl
hsl(27, 69%, 53%)oklch
oklch(0.683 0.142 56.2)Closest name: Bronze (#cd7f32)Relative luminance 0.3033
Colors that go with #da7f34
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Amber 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 #da7f34: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #da7f34 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #da7f34 in 6 real palettes, including Maple and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #da7f34, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #da7f34 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #da7f34: 6 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #da7f34, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #da7f34 in 4 real palettes, including Burger King's brand system and Retro Pop, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #da7f34
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #da7f34 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.97:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.07:1 | 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 #da7f34 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
#da7f34 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #da7f34
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 #da7f34 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/da7f34-c4b39c-62cbc7-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md