Kiln
Open in tool →Fired clay and ash on a dark umber — the earthy dark mode; warm enough that the dark surface reads as material, not void.
Color
#dbca9f
#dbca9f
hex
#dbca9frgb
rgb(219, 202, 159)hsl
hsl(43, 45%, 74%)oklch
oklch(0.842 0.06 89)Closest name: Ancestral Gold (#ddcda6)Relative luminance 0.598
Colors that go with #dbca9f
Charcoal, Lilac and Sky 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #dbca9f: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #dbca9f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
split-complementshippedSky Blue is a split-complement of #dbca9f: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including League of Legends's brand system and Uber's brand system put Blue beside #dbca9f, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #dbca9f: 5 real palettes, including Coastal and Estate, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #dbca9f: 5 real palettes, including Webflow's brand system and NBA's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #dbca9f in 7 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Diner, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #dbca9f in 5 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Undergrowth, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #dbca9f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #dbca9f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.62:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.96:1 | 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 #dbca9f 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
#dbca9f reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #dbca9f
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 #dbca9f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/dbca9f-c4bd9c-62b2cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?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