Color
#bc6e01
#bc6e01rgb(188, 110, 1)hsl(35, 99%, 37%)oklch(0.611 0.139 63.5)Colors that go with #bc6e01
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 #bc6e01: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #bc6e01 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 #bc6e01: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Bramble and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #bc6e01, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #bc6e01 in 5 real palettes, including Cider and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #bc6e01: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Postman's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #bc6e01: 5 real palettes, including Opensea's brand system and Notion's brand system, as the lead colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #bc6e01: 4 real palettes, including Chipotle's brand system and Newsprint, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #bc6e01
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bc6e01 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.91:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.37:1 | 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 #bc6e01 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
#bc6e01 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 #bc6e01 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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