Color

#c5a65e

#c5a65e
hex#c5a65e
rgbrgb(197, 166, 94)
hslhsl(42, 47%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.737 0.098 86.7)
Closest name: Amaretto Sour (#c09856)Relative luminance 0.3995

Colors that go with #c5a65e

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Lilac 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#5e7dc5

#c5725e · #b0c55e

#5ec5a6 · #a65ec5

Split-complementary

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#5eb0c5 · #725ec5

#5ec572 · #5e7dc5 · #c55eb0

Contrast

#c5a65e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.34:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8e7333 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #695526 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.06:1)
Aaon black
8.99:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c5a65e as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#c5a65e reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c5a65e
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 #c5a65e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c5a65e-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md