Color

#bb9d16

#bb9d16
hex#bb9d16
rgbrgb(187, 157, 22)
hslhsl(49, 79%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.703 0.14 94.7)
Closest name: Faint Gold (#b59410)Relative luminance 0.3474

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1634bb

#bb4a16 · #87bb16

#16bb9d · #9d16bb

Split-complementary

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#1687bb · #4a16bb

#16bb4a · #1634bb · #bb1687

Contrast

#bb9d16 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.64:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #897310 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #64540c as the text (7.46:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.09:1)
Aaon black
7.95:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bb9d16 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

#bb9d16 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bb9d16
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #bb9d16 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bb9d16-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md