Color

#b09417

#b09417
hex#b09417
rgbrgb(176, 148, 23)
hslhsl(49, 77%, 39%)
oklchoklch(0.673 0.133 94.8)
Closest name: Faint Gold (#b59410)Relative luminance 0.3047

Colors that go with #b09417

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Champagne 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#1733b0

#b04717 · #80b017

#17b094 · #9417b0

Split-complementary

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#1780b0 · #4717b0

#17b047 · #1733b0 · #b01780

Contrast

#b09417 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.96:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #877212 as the text (4.72:1)
  • AAA: use #68570d as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.09:1)
Aaon black
7.09:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b09417 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

#b09417 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b09417
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 #b09417 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b09417-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md