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
#b9852d
#b9852d
hex
#b9852drgb
rgb(185, 133, 45)hsl
hsl(38, 61%, 45%)oklch
oklch(0.653 0.119 76.4)Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.2728
Colors that go with #b9852d
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 #b9852d: 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 #b9852d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
complementaryshippedDodger Blue sits directly opposite #b9852d 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 #b9852d, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #b9852d in 6 real palettes, including Cider and Olive Grove, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #b9852d: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Guinness's brand system, as the lead colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #b9852d: 4 real palettes, including Newsprint and Chipotle's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #b9852d in 5 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #b9852d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b9852d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.25:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.46:1 | 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 #b9852d 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
#b9852d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b9852d
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 #b9852d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b9852d-c4ba9c-62bbcb-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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