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
#b9800e
#b9800e
hex
#b9800ergb
rgb(185, 128, 14)hsl
hsl(40, 86%, 39%)oklch
oklch(0.642 0.131 76.6)Closest name: darkgoldenrod (#b8860b)Relative luminance 0.2578
Colors that go with #b9800e
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Dodger 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 #b9800e: 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 #b9800e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
complementaryshippedDodger Blue sits directly opposite #b9800e 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 #b9800e, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #b9800e in 6 real palettes, including Cider and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #b9800e: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Guinness's brand system, as the lead colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #b9800e: 4 real palettes, including Newsprint and Chipotle's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #b9800e in 5 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #b9800e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b9800e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.41:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.16:1 | 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 #b9800e 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
#b9800e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b9800e
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 #b9800e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b9800e-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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