Magazine Ochre
Open in tool →Ochre and walnut on unbleached stock, with teal as the counterpoint — a features-section palette with some heat in it.
Color
#bc4f01
#bc4f01
hex
#bc4f01rgb
rgb(188, 79, 1)hsl
hsl(25, 99%, 37%)oklch
oklch(0.561 0.158 46)Closest name: Bloodhound (#bb5511)Relative luminance 0.1629
Colors that go with #bc4f01
Steel Blue, Dark Olive Green and Hunter Green 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.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #bc4f01 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #bc4f01 in 5 real palettes, including Magazine Ochre and Farmers Market, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #bc4f01 in 4 real palettes, including Trailhead and Fireside, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #bc4f01 in 8 real palettes, including Gallery and Noir Beauty, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #bc4f01 in 14 real palettes, including Wellness and Clay & Linen, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Teal #008080
split-complementshippedTeal is a split-complement of #bc4f01: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Royal Blue #4169e1
split-complementshippedRoyal Blue is a split-complement of #bc4f01: 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 #bc4f01: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #bc4f01
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bc4f01 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.93:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 4.26:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #bc4f01 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
#bc4f01 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bc4f01
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 #bc4f01 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bc4f01-c4b19c-62cbc4-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md