Cider
Open in tool →Rust, honey and a moss green on cream — the orchard palette; the green keeps it from being all one temperature.
Color
#bb8725
#bb8725
hex
#bb8725rgb
rgb(187, 135, 37)hsl
hsl(39, 67%, 44%)oklch
oklch(0.659 0.125 78.3)Closest name: darkgoldenrod (#b8860b)Relative luminance 0.2803
Colors that go with #bb8725
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Cornflower 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
split-complementshippedCadet Blue is a split-complement of #bb8725: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #bb8725: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #bb8725 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Cartier's brand system put Blush Pink beside #bb8725, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #bb8725, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #bb8725 in 5 real palettes, including Cider and Olive Grove, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #bb8725: 4 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Dusk, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #bb8725: 6 real palettes, including Opensea's brand system and Liquid Death's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #bb8725
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bb8725 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.18:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.61:1 | 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 #bb8725 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
#bb8725 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bb8725
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 #bb8725 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bb8725-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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