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
#bd890f
#bd890f
hex
#bd890frgb
rgb(189, 137, 15)hsl
hsl(42, 85%, 40%)oklch
oklch(0.664 0.134 80.9)Closest name: darkgoldenrod (#b8860b)Relative luminance 0.2874
Colors that go with #bd890f
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 #bd890f: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #bd890f 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 Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #bd890f, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #bd890f: 5 real palettes, including Estate and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #bd890f, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #bd890f in 5 real palettes, including Cider and Forest Floor, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #bd890f: 4 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Dusk, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #bd890f: 5 real palettes, including Opensea's brand system and Liquid Death's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #bd890f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bd890f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.11:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.75:1 | 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 #bd890f 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
#bd890f reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bd890f
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 #bd890f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bd890f-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?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