Color
#b38009
#b38009rgb(179, 128, 9)hsl(42, 90%, 37%)oklch(0.634 0.129 80)Colors that go with #b38009
Cadet Blue, Dodger 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
triadicshippedCadet Blue completes a triad with #b38009 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
complementaryshippedDodger Blue sits directly opposite #b38009 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #b38009, as that palette's text colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #b38009: 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 #b38009 in 6 real palettes, including Cider and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #b38009 in 4 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #b38009 in 5 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Chevrolet's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #b38009: 5 real palettes, including Cider and Homestead, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #b38009
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b38009 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.5:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.01:1 | 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 #b38009 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
#b38009 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #b38009 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/b38009-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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