Cider
Open in tool →Rust, honey and a moss green on cream — the orchard palette; the green keeps it from being all one temperature.
Color
#bc8520
#bc8520
hex
#bc8520rgb
rgb(188, 133, 32)hsl
hsl(39, 71%, 43%)oklch
oklch(0.656 0.127 76.9)Closest name: darkgoldenrod (#b8860b)Relative luminance 0.2757
Colors that go with #bc8520
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Dodger 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
split-complementshippedCadet Blue is a split-complement of #bc8520: 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 #bc8520: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
complementaryshippedDodger Blue sits directly opposite #bc8520 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Cartier's brand system put Blush Pink beside #bc8520, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #bc8520, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #bc8520 in 5 real palettes, including Cider and Forest Floor, as the accent.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #bc8520: 4 real palettes, including Newsprint and Maple, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #bc8520 in 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Darkroom, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #bc8520
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bc8520 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.22:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.51:1 | 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 #bc8520 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
#bc8520 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bc8520
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 #bc8520 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bc8520-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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