Color

#dae396

#dae396
hex#dae396
rgbrgb(218, 227, 150)
hslhsl(67, 58%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.891 0.099 113.9)
Closest name: khaki (#f0e68c)Relative luminance 0.7205

Colors that go with #dae396

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.

Real palettes that use #dae396

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9f96e3

#e3c696 · #b4e396

#96dae3 · #e396da

Split-complementary

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#96b4e3 · #c696e3

#96e3c6 · #9f96e3 · #e396b4

Contrast

#dae396 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.36:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6f7920 as the text (4.74:1)
  • AAA: use #555d19 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #616161 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #454545 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
15.41:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dae396 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

#dae396 reads as light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dae396
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 #dae396 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dae396-b8bea2-4e83df-262d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md