Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#bb6e30
#bb6e30
hex
#bb6e30rgb
rgb(187, 110, 48)hsl
hsl(27, 59%, 46%)oklch
oklch(0.613 0.123 56.2)Closest name: Copper (#b87333)Relative luminance 0.2193
Colors that go with #bb6e30
Charcoal, Royal Blue and Steel 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 #bb6e30: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Royal Blue #4169e1
split-complementshippedRoyal Blue is a split-complement of #bb6e30: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #bb6e30 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 #bb6e30 in 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #bb6e30 in 5 real palettes, including Bramble and Coffee Bar, 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 #bb6e30 in 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Cider, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #bb6e30 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.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDodger Blue is paired with #bb6e30 in 5 real palettes, including Opensea's brand system and Notion's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #bb6e30
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bb6e30 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.9:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.39:1 | 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 #bb6e30 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
Desert Road
Open in tool →Sandstone and sand with a deep teal — the one cool note makes the warm colours look intentional rather than beige.
Riverbed
Open in tool →Wet-stone green and pebble grey with a copper accent — an earth palette that leans cool, for outdoor and wellness.
Fonts for this mood
#bb6e30 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bb6e30
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 #bb6e30 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bb6e30-c4b39c-62cbc7-2d2c1f-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