Color
#bb6616
#bb6616rgb(187, 102, 22)hsl(29, 79%, 41%)oklch(0.597 0.137 56.6)Colors that go with #bb6616
Charcoal, Steel 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #bb6616: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #bb6616 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 #bb6616 in 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #bb6616 in 4 real palettes, including Bramble and BrandSweets's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #bb6616 in 6 real palettes, including Magazine Ochre and Clay & Linen, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #bb6616 in 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Postman's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod is paired with #bb6616 in 4 real palettes, including Harvest and Mid-Century, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #bb6616 in 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Trailhead, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #bb6616
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bb6616 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.18:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.03:1 | 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 #bb6616 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
#bb6616 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #bb6616 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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