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
#b7882a
#b7882a
hex
#b7882argb
rgb(183, 136, 42)hsl
hsl(40, 63%, 44%)oklch
oklch(0.656 0.121 80.5)Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.2784
Colors that go with #b7882a
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Cornflower 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
split-complementshippedCadet Blue is a split-complement of #b7882a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #b7882a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #b7882a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #b7882a, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #b7882a in 6 real palettes, including Cider and Olive Grove, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #b7882a: 4 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Dusk, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #b7882a: 4 real palettes, including Opensea's brand system and Liquid Death's brand system, as the lead colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #b7882a: 4 real palettes, including Newsprint and Maple, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #b7882a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b7882a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.2:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.57:1 | 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 #b7882a 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
#b7882a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b7882a
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 #b7882a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b7882a-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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