Coffee Bar
Open in tool →Espresso and caramel: a dark-roast palette that photographs latte art beautifully.
Color
#c38e55
#c38e55
hex
#c38e55rgb
rgb(195, 142, 85)hsl
hsl(31, 48%, 55%)oklch
oklch(0.686 0.098 67)Closest name: Barista’s Favourite (#bb8d4e)Relative luminance 0.316
Colors that go with #c38e55
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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
split-complementshippedCadet Blue is a split-complement of #c38e55: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #c38e55: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #c38e55 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 #c38e55 in 4 real palettes, including Maple and Ahrefs's brand system, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Blush put Blush Pink beside #c38e55, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #c38e55 in 4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Kiln, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #c38e55, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #c38e55 in 4 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Retro Pop, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #c38e55
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c38e55 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.87:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.32:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #c38e55 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
#c38e55 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c38e55
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 #c38e55 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c38e55-c4b59c-62c7cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?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