Color

#b38c19

#b38c19
hex#b38c19
rgbrgb(179, 140, 25)
hslhsl(45, 75%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.659 0.128 87.6)
Closest name: darkgoldenrod (#b8860b)Relative luminance 0.2841

Colors that go with #b38c19

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 #b38c19

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1940b3

#b34019 · #8cb319

#19b38c · #8c19b3

Split-complementary

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#198cb3 · #4019b3

#19b340 · #1940b3 · #b3198c

Contrast

#b38c19 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.14:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8f7014 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #6b540f as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.51:1)
Aaon black
6.68:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b7901a as the text (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b38c19 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

#b38c19 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b38c19
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 #b38c19 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b38c19-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md