Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#bd9561
#bd9561
hex
#bd9561rgb
rgb(189, 149, 97)hsl
hsl(34, 41%, 56%)oklch
oklch(0.695 0.084 73)Closest name: Amaretto Sour (#c09856)Relative luminance 0.3318
Colors that go with #bd9561
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Cornflower 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 #bd9561: 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 #bd9561: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #bd9561 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #bd9561, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #bd9561 in 4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Kiln, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #bd9561, as the surface under it.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #bd9561 in 6 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Oatmeal, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #bd9561: 6 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Dusk, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #bd9561
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bd9561 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.75:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.64:1 | 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 #bd9561 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#bd9561 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bd9561
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 #bd9561 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bd9561-c4b79c-62c2cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?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