Color

#b1740b

#b1740b
hex#b1740b
rgbrgb(177, 116, 11)
hslhsl(38, 88%, 37%)
oklchoklch(0.609 0.128 72)
Closest name: Caramel (#af6f09)Relative luminance 0.2186

Colors that go with #b1740b

Dodger Blue, Cadet Blue 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.

Real palettes that use #b1740b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#0b48b1

#b1210b · #9bb10b

#0bb174 · #740bb1

Split-complementary

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#0b9bb1 · #210bb1

#0bb121 · #0b48b1 · #b10b9b

Contrast

#b1740b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.91:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a36b0a as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #784f08 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #171717 (4.59:1)
Aaon black
5.37:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ce870d as the text (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b1740b 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

#b1740b reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b1740b
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 #b1740b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b1740b-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md