Color

#bc8401

#bc8401
hex#bc8401
rgbrgb(188, 132, 1)
hslhsl(42, 99%, 37%)
oklchoklch(0.653 0.136 78.6)
Closest name: darkgoldenrod (#b8860b)Relative luminance 0.272

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0139bc

#bc2601 · #96bc01

#01bc84 · #8401bc

Split-complementary

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#0196bc · #2601bc

#01bc26 · #0139bc · #bc0196

Contrast

#bc8401 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.26:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9d6e01 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #755201 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.64:1)
Aaon black
6.44:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #c68b01 as the text (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #bc8401 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

#bc8401 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bc8401
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 #bc8401 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bc8401-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md