Color

#c18e01

#c18e01
hex#c18e01
rgbrgb(193, 142, 1)
hslhsl(44, 99%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.678 0.139 82.9)
Closest name: Faint Gold (#b59410)Relative luminance 0.3069

Colors that go with #c18e01

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Cadet 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.

Real palettes that use #c18e01

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0134c1

#c12e01 · #94c101

#01c18e · #8e01c1

Split-complementary

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#0194c1 · #2e01c1

#01c12e · #0134c1 · #c10194

Contrast

#c18e01 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.94:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #987001 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #705201 as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #030303 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.14:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c18e01 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

#c18e01 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c18e01
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 #c18e01 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c18e01-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md