Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#c36f4b
#c36f4b
hex
#c36f4brgb
rgb(195, 111, 75)hsl
hsl(18, 50%, 53%)oklch
oklch(0.628 0.118 43.4)Closest name: Copper (#b87333)Relative luminance 0.2348
Colors that go with #c36f4b
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Steel 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #c36f4b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #c36f4b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #c36f4b: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #c36f4b in 7 real palettes, including Maple and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Glossier's brand system put Blue beside #c36f4b, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #c36f4b in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Bramble put Champagne beside #c36f4b, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #c36f4b in 4 real palettes, including Redfin's brand system and Pizza Hut's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #c36f4b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c36f4b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.69:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.7:1 | 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 #c36f4b 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
Homestead
Open in tool →Timber and olive for homes that photograph in golden hour; nothing here competes with a good listing photo.
Desert Road
Open in tool →Sandstone and sand with a deep teal — the one cool note makes the warm colours look intentional rather than beige.
Fonts for this mood
#c36f4b reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c36f4b
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 #c36f4b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c36f4b-c4ad9c-62cbb8-2d291f-f1e9eb?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