Color

#ba9512

#ba9512
hex#ba9512
rgbrgb(186, 149, 18)
hslhsl(47, 82%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.685 0.136 90.4)
Closest name: Faint Gold (#b59410)Relative luminance 0.3198

Colors that go with #ba9512

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.

Real palettes that use #ba9512

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#1237ba

#ba4212 · #8aba12

#12ba95 · #9512ba

Split-complementary

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#128aba · #4212ba

#12ba42 · #1237ba · #ba128a

Contrast

#ba9512 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.84:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8b700e as the text (4.75:1)
  • AAA: use #6b560b as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.4:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ba9512 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

#ba9512 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ba9512
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 #ba9512 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ba9512-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md