Color
#dab981
#dab981rgb(218, 185, 129)hsl(38, 55%, 68%)oklch(0.802 0.082 80.3)Colors that go with #dab981
Charcoal, Sky Blue and Lilac 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 #dab981: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
split-complementshippedSky Blue is a split-complement of #dab981: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #dab981 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #dab981: 6 real palettes, including Coastal and Clean Beauty, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #dab981, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #dab981: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Bramble, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #dab981: 6 real palettes, including Webflow's brand system and Gopro's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #dab981 in 8 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Retro Pop, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #dab981
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #dab981 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.87:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.24:1 | 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 #dab981 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
#dab981 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #dab981 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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