Color

#c08d16

#c08d16
hex#c08d16
rgbrgb(192, 141, 22)
hslhsl(42, 79%, 42%)
oklchoklch(0.675 0.134 81.7)
Closest name: darkgoldenrod (#b8860b)Relative luminance 0.3031

Colors that go with #c08d16

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.

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#1649c0

#c03816 · #9ec016

#16c08d · #8d16c0

Split-complementary

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#169ec0 · #3816c0

#16c038 · #1649c0 · #c0169e

Contrast

#c08d16 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.97:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #976f12 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #72540d as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
7.06:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c08d16 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

#c08d16 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c08d16
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #c08d16 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c08d16-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md