Color
#bc9e5c
#bc9e5crgb(188, 158, 92)hsl(41, 42%, 55%)oklch(0.712 0.092 85.6)Colors that go with #bc9e5c
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Blush Pink 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 #bc9e5c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #bc9e5c 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 Garden Wedding and Estate put Blush Pink beside #bc9e5c, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #bc9e5c: 5 real palettes, including Estate and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #bc9e5c, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #bc9e5c: 6 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #bc9e5c in 4 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Tequila Sunrise, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #bc9e5c in 7 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #bc9e5c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bc9e5c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.57:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.18:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #bc9e5c 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
#bc9e5c reads as warm. 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 #bc9e5c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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