Color

#bb7b0c

#bb7b0c
hex#bb7b0c
rgbrgb(187, 123, 12)
hslhsl(38, 88%, 39%)
oklchoklch(0.634 0.133 72.2)
Closest name: darkgoldenrod (#b8860b)Relative luminance 0.2476

Colors that go with #bb7b0c

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.

Real palettes that use #bb7b0c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0c4cbb

#bb230c · #a4bb0c

#0cbb7b · #7b0cbb

Split-complementary

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#0ca4bb · #230cbb

#0cbb23 · #0c4cbb · #bb0ca4

Contrast

#bb7b0c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.53:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a36b0a as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #784f08 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.56:1)
Aaon black
5.95:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ce870d as the text (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #bb7b0c 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

#bb7b0c reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bb7b0c
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 #bb7b0c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bb7b0c-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md