Color
#bf9836
#bf9836rgb(191, 152, 54)hsl(43, 56%, 48%)oklch(0.698 0.122 86.5)Colors that go with #bf9836
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #bf9836: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #bf9836 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #bf9836 in 4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Kiln, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #bf9836: 4 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Estate, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #bf9836, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #bf9836 in 6 real palettes, including Cider and Forest Floor, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #bf9836: 5 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Open House, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #bf9836: 5 real palettes, including Liquid Death's brand system and Opensea's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #bf9836
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bf9836 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.71:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.76:1 | 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 #bf9836 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
#bf9836 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 #bf9836 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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