Magazine Ochre
Open in tool →Ochre and walnut on unbleached stock, with teal as the counterpoint — a features-section palette with some heat in it.
Color
#bb580c
#bb580c
hex
#bb580crgb
rgb(187, 88, 12)hsl
hsl(26, 88%, 39%)oklch
oklch(0.574 0.148 49.6)Closest name: Bloodhound (#bb5511)Relative luminance 0.1757
Colors that go with #bb580c
Steel Blue, Cadet Blue and Dark Olive Green 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.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #bb580c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #bb580c in 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #bb580c in 5 real palettes, including Magazine Ochre and Clay & Linen, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod is paired with #bb580c in 4 real palettes, including Harvest and Noir Beauty, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #bb580c in 4 real palettes, including Trailhead and Desert Road, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedSaddle Brown is paired with #bb580c in 4 real palettes, including Bakery and Homestead, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #bb580c — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #bb580c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #bb580c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bb580c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.65:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.51:1 | 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 #bb580c 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
#bb580c reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bb580c
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 #bb580c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bb580c-c4b29c-62cbc5-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md