Color

#dbd9ae

#dbd9ae
hex#dbd9ae
rgbrgb(219, 217, 174)
hslhsl(57, 38%, 77%)
oklchoklch(0.876 0.057 105.3)
Closest name: April Showers (#dadeb5)Relative luminance 0.6774

Colors that go with #dbd9ae

Charcoal, Lilac and Amber 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 #dbd9ae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aeb0db

#dbc2ae · #c7dbae

#aedbd8 · #d8aedb

Split-complementary

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#aec7db · #c2aedb

#aedbc2 · #aeb0db · #dbaec7

Contrast

#dbd9ae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.44:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b7837 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #5b5929 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #5c5c5c (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #404040 (7.18:1)
Aaon black
14.55:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dbd9ae 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

#dbd9ae reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dbd9ae
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 #dbd9ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dbd9ae-bcbea2-4e9bdf-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md