Color
#bb991b
#bb991brgb(187, 153, 27)hsl(47, 75%, 42%)oklch(0.695 0.136 91.9)Colors that go with #bb991b
Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Champagne 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 #bb991b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #bb991b in 4 real palettes, including Estate and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #bb991b in 6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke, 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 #bb991b in 6 real palettes, including Cider and Olive Grove, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #bb991b in 4 real palettes, including Bramble and Golden Hour, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #bb991b in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Darkroom, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedSaddle Brown is paired with #bb991b in 4 real palettes, including Cider and Bakery, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #bb991b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #bb991b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bb991b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.73:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.69:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #bb991b 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
#bb991b 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 #bb991b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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