Color

#b57017

#b57017
hex#b57017
rgbrgb(181, 112, 23)
hslhsl(34, 77%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.607 0.128 65.8)
Closest name: Caramel (#af6f09)Relative luminance 0.2147

Colors that go with #b57017

Steel Blue, Cadet 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.

Real palettes that use #b57017

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#175cb5

#b52217 · #aab517

#17b570 · #7017b5

Split-complementary

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#17aab5 · #2217b5

#17b522 · #175cb5 · #b517aa

Contrast

#b57017 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.97:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a76816 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #7a4c10 as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #171717 (4.52:1)
Aaon black
5.29:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #d4841c as the text (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b57017 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

#b57017 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b57017
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 #b57017 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b57017-c4b79c-62c2cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md