Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#bc6438
#bc6438
hex
#bc6438rgb
rgb(188, 100, 56)hsl
hsl(20, 54%, 48%)oklch
oklch(0.598 0.127 45.7)Closest name: Boho Copper (#b96033)Relative luminance 0.2009
Colors that go with #bc6438
Charcoal, Steel 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #bc6438: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #bc6438 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #bc6438: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Bramble and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #bc6438, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #bc6438 in 5 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Redfin's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #bc6438 in 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Magazine Ochre, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #bc6438: 8 real palettes, including Dusk and Postman's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #bc6438: 5 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Opensea's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #bc6438
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bc6438 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.18:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.02:1 | 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 #bc6438 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
#bc6438 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bc6438
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 #bc6438 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bc6438-c4ae9c-62cbbb-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?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