Cider
Open in tool →Rust, honey and a moss green on cream — the orchard palette; the green keeps it from being all one temperature.
Color
#b48018
#b48018
hex
#b48018rgb
rgb(180, 128, 24)hsl
hsl(40, 76%, 40%)oklch
oklch(0.636 0.126 78.3)Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.2521
Colors that go with #b48018
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 #b48018 — 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 #b48018 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 #b48018, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #b48018 in 6 real palettes, including Cider and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #b48018 in 4 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and OktaOkta on YoutubeOkta on XOkta on LinkedIn's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #b48018: 5 real palettes, including Cider and Homestead, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #b48018: 4 real palettes, including Riverbed and Homestead, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #b48018: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #b48018
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b48018 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.48:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.04:1 | 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 #b48018 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#b48018 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b48018
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #b48018 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b48018-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-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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