Color

#bc990b

#bc990b
hex#bc990b
rgbrgb(188, 153, 11)
hslhsl(48, 89%, 39%)
oklchoklch(0.695 0.14 92.1)
Closest name: Faint Gold (#b59410)Relative luminance 0.335

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0b2ebc

#bc400b · #87bc0b

#0bbc99 · #990bbc

Split-complementary

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#0b87bc · #400bbc

#0bbc40 · #0b2ebc · #bc0b87

Contrast

#bc990b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.73:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8c7108 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #6a5606 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.7:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #bc990b 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

#bc990b reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bc990b
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 #bc990b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bc990b-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md