Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#c16a33
#c16a33
hex
#c16a33rgb
rgb(193, 106, 51)hsl
hsl(23, 58%, 48%)oklch
oklch(0.614 0.13 50.3)Closest name: Copper (#b87333)Relative luminance 0.2188
Colors that go with #c16a33
Charcoal, Crimson and Dodger 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 #c16a33: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
analogousshippedCrimson is #c16a33's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
split-complementshippedDodger Blue is a split-complement of #c16a33: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #c16a33 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 #c16a33 in 6 real palettes, including Maple and Trailhead, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #c16a33: 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Bramble and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #c16a33, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #c16a33 in 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Magazine Ochre, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #c16a33
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c16a33 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.91:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.38:1 | 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 #c16a33 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
#c16a33 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c16a33
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 #c16a33 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c16a33-c4b09c-62cbc0-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?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