Riverbed
Open in tool →Wet-stone green and pebble grey with a copper accent — an earth palette that leans cool, for outdoor and wellness.
Color
#bc7838
#bc7838
hex
#bc7838rgb
rgb(188, 120, 56)hsl
hsl(29, 54%, 48%)oklch
oklch(0.633 0.116 61.2)Closest name: Copper (#b87333)Relative luminance 0.2441
Colors that go with #bc7838
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Orange Red 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
split-complementshippedCadet Blue is a split-complement of #bc7838: 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 #bc7838: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Orange Red #ff4500
analogousshippedOrange Red is #bc7838's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #bc7838 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Bramble put Champagne beside #bc7838, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #bc7838 in 8 real palettes, including Cider and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #bc7838: 7 real palettes, including Dusk and Guinness's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #bc7838: 8 real palettes, including Opensea's brand system and Notion's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #bc7838
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bc7838 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.57:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.88:1 | 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 #bc7838 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#bc7838 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bc7838
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 #bc7838 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bc7838-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?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