Color
#b49218
#b49218rgb(180, 146, 24)hsl(47, 76%, 40%)oklch(0.673 0.132 91.3)Colors that go with #b49218
Cadet Blue, Charcoal 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 #b49218 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #b49218: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #b49218, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #b49218 in 6 real palettes, including Cider and Olive Grove, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #b49218: 4 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Dusk, as the accent.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #b49218: 4 real palettes, including Newsprint and Fireside, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #b49218 in 5 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #b49218 in 4 real palettes, including Chevrolet's brand system and Guinness's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #b49218
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b49218 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.97:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.07:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b49218 as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#b49218 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 #b49218 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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