Color

#b59817

#b59817
hex#b59817
rgbrgb(181, 152, 23)
hslhsl(49, 77%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.686 0.136 94.7)
Closest name: Faint Gold (#b59410)Relative luminance 0.3234

Colors that go with #b59817

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Cadet Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#1734b5

#b54917 · #83b517

#17b598 · #9817b5

Split-complementary

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#1783b5 · #4917b5

#17b549 · #1734b5 · #b51783

Contrast

#b59817 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.81:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #877212 as the text (4.72:1)
  • AAA: use #68570d as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.47:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b59817 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

#b59817 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b59817
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 #b59817 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b59817-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md