Color

#b28801

#b28801
hex#b28801
rgbrgb(178, 136, 1)
hslhsl(46, 99%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.649 0.133 86.6)
Closest name: darkgoldenrod (#b8860b)Relative luminance 0.2708

Colors that go with #b28801

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.

Real palettes that use #b28801

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#012ab2

#b23001 · #82b201

#01b288 · #8801b2

Split-complementary

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#0182b2 · #3001b2

#01b230 · #012ab2 · #b20182

Contrast

#b28801 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.27:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #937101 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #6b5201 as the text (7.41:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.62:1)
Aaon black
6.42:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #bc9001 as the text (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b28801 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

#b28801 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b28801
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 #b28801 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b28801-c4bf9c-62adcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md