Color

#dba599

#dba599
hex#dba599
rgbrgb(219, 165, 153)
hslhsl(11, 48%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.769 0.067 32.8)
Closest name: Apricotta (#d8a48f)Relative luminance 0.4427

Colors that go with #dba599

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 #dba599

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#99cfdb

#db99ae · #dbc699

#99dba5 · #a599db

Split-complementary

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#99dbc6 · #99aedb

#aedb99 · #99cfdb · #c699db

Contrast

#dba599 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.13:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b95741 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #8c4231 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.72:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
9.85:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dba599 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

#dba599 reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dba599
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 #dba599 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dba599-c4a89c-62cbab-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md