Color

#c48c12

#c48c12
hex#c48c12
rgbrgb(196, 140, 18)
hslhsl(41, 83%, 42%)
oklchoklch(0.678 0.137 79.3)
Closest name: darkgoldenrod (#b8860b)Relative luminance 0.3054

Colors that go with #c48c12

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and 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 #c48c12

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#124bc4

#c43312 · #a3c412

#12c48c · #8c12c4

Split-complementary

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#12a3c4 · #3312c4

#12c433 · #124bc4 · #c412a3

Contrast

#c48c12 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.95:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9a6e0e as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #75530b as the text (7:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
7.11:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c48c12 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

#c48c12 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c48c12
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 #c48c12 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c48c12-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md