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
#dfc8a9
#dfc8a9
hex
#dfc8a9rgb
rgb(223, 200, 169)hsl
hsl(34, 46%, 77%)oklch
oklch(0.844 0.049 75.2)Closest name: Ancestral Gold (#ddcda6)Relative luminance 0.5986
Colors that go with #dfc8a9
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 #dfc8a9: 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 #dfc8a9: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #dfc8a9 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Velvet and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #dfc8a9, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #dfc8a9: 4 real palettes, including Estate and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #dfc8a9: 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clean Beauty, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #dfc8a9: 5 real palettes, including Webflow's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #dfc8a9 in 5 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #dfc8a9
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #dfc8a9 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.62:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.97:1 | 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 #dfc8a9 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
#dfc8a9 reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #dfc8a9
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 #dfc8a9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/dfc8a9-c4b79c-62c2cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?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