Coffee Bar
Open in tool →Espresso and caramel: a dark-roast palette that photographs latte art beautifully.
Color
#be8a3c
#be8a3c
hex
#be8a3crgb
rgb(190, 138, 60)hsl
hsl(36, 52%, 49%)oklch
oklch(0.67 0.113 74.5)Closest name: Barista’s Favourite (#bb8d4e)Relative luminance 0.2945
Colors that go with #be8a3c
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Burlywood 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 #be8a3c: 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 #be8a3c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #be8a3c in 4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Kiln, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #be8a3c in 6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #be8a3c in 6 real palettes, including Cider and Forest Floor, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #be8a3c in 4 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #be8a3c in 6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Desert Road, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #be8a3c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #be8a3c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.05:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.89:1 | 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 #be8a3c 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
#be8a3c reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #be8a3c
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 #be8a3c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/be8a3c-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?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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