Bramble
Open in tool →Blackberry and bark with a wheat highlight on a plum-black surface — late-autumn, quiet, slightly gothic.
Color
#c5ae77
#c5ae77
hex
#c5ae77rgb
rgb(197, 174, 119)hsl
hsl(42, 40%, 62%)oklch
oklch(0.758 0.077 87.8)Closest name: Sand (#c2b280)Relative luminance 0.4347
Colors that go with #c5ae77
Charcoal, Lilac and Blush Pink 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #c5ae77: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #c5ae77 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #c5ae77, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #c5ae77: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Open House, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #c5ae77, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #c5ae77: 5 real palettes, including Bramble and Desert Road, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #c5ae77: 5 real palettes, including Webflow's brand system and Gopro's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #c5ae77 in 4 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Cartier's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #c5ae77
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c5ae77 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.17:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.69:1 | 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 #c5ae77 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#c5ae77 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c5ae77
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 #c5ae77 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c5ae77-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?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