Color

#bb9516

#bb9516
hex#bb9516
rgbrgb(187, 149, 22)
hslhsl(46, 79%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.686 0.135 89.6)
Closest name: Faint Gold (#b59410)Relative luminance 0.3212

Colors that go with #bb9516

Charcoal, Cornflower 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.

Real palettes that use #bb9516

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#163cbb

#bb4216 · #8fbb16

#16bb95 · #9516bb

Split-complementary

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#168fbb · #4216bb

#16bb42 · #163cbb · #bb168f

Contrast

#bb9516 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.83:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8d7011 as the text (4.71:1)
  • AAA: use #69530c as the text (7.39:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.42:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #bb9516 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

#bb9516 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bb9516
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 #bb9516 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bb9516-c4bf9c-62adcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md