Color

#daa481

#daa481
hex#daa481
rgbrgb(218, 164, 129)
hslhsl(24, 55%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.761 0.08 54.1)
Closest name: Apricotta (#d8a48f)Relative luminance 0.4304

Colors that go with #daa481

Charcoal, Sky Blue and 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 #daa481

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#81b6da

#da8189 · #dad181

#81daa4 · #a481da

Split-complementary

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#81dad1 · #8189da

#89da81 · #81b6da · #d181da

Contrast

#daa481 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.19:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #aa6231 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #824b26 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
9.61:1passpasspassPasses 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 #daa481 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

#daa481 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #daa481
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 #daa481 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/daa481-c4b19c-62cbc2-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md