Cider
Open in tool →Rust, honey and a moss green on cream — the orchard palette; the green keeps it from being all one temperature.
Color
#af882c
#af882c
hex
#af882crgb
rgb(175, 136, 44)hsl
hsl(42, 60%, 43%)oklch
oklch(0.648 0.116 84.8)Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.269
Colors that go with #af882c
Cadet Blue, Champagne and Charcoal 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
triadicshippedCadet Blue completes a triad with #af882c — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #af882c, as that palette's text colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #af882c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #af882c in 6 real palettes, including Cider and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #af882c: 5 real palettes, including Opensea's brand system and Liquid Death's brand system, as the lead colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #af882c: 4 real palettes, including Newsprint and Chipotle's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #af882c in 5 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #af882c in 4 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Chevrolet's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #af882c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #af882c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.29:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.38:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #af882c 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
#af882c reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #af882c
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 #af882c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/af882c-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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