Color

#c28e2e

#c28e2e
hex#c28e2e
rgbrgb(194, 142, 46)
hslhsl(39, 62%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.681 0.125 78.5)
Closest name: Barista’s Favourite (#bb8d4e)Relative luminance 0.3101

Colors that go with #c28e2e

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Cornflower 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 #c28e2e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2e62c2

#c2442e · #acc22e

#2ec28e · #8e2ec2

Split-complementary

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#2eacc2 · #442ec2

#2ec244 · #2e62c2 · #c22eac

Contrast

#c28e2e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.92:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #956d23 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #70521a as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #030303 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.2:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c28e2e 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

#c28e2e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c28e2e
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 #c28e2e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c28e2e-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md