Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#be692d
#be692d
hex
#be692drgb
rgb(190, 105, 45)hsl
hsl(25, 62%, 46%)oklch
oklch(0.608 0.13 52.4)Closest name: Copper (#b87333)Relative luminance 0.2124
Colors that go with #be692d
Charcoal, Royal Blue and Steel 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #be692d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Royal Blue #4169e1
split-complementshippedRoyal Blue is a split-complement of #be692d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #be692d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #be692d in 6 real palettes, including Trailhead and Maple, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #be692d: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Bramble and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #be692d, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
analogousshippedCrimson is #be692d's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #be692d in 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Magazine Ochre, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #be692d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #be692d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.25:1 | 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 #be692d 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
#be692d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #be692d
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 #be692d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/be692d-c4b19c-62cbc4-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?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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