Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#c5986d
#c5986d
hex
#c5986drgb
rgb(197, 152, 109)hsl
hsl(29, 43%, 60%)oklch
oklch(0.712 0.079 64.7)Closest name: Baker’s Dream (#c98f70)Relative luminance 0.3543
Colors that go with #c5986d
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 #c5986d: 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 #c5986d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #c5986d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #c5986d, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #c5986d, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #c5986d: 6 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #c5986d in 6 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #c5986d in 7 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #c5986d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c5986d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.6:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.09:1 | 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 #c5986d as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#c5986d reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c5986d
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 #c5986d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c5986d-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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