Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#c8996a
#c8996a
hex
#c8996argb
rgb(200, 153, 106)hsl
hsl(30, 46%, 60%)oklch
oklch(0.716 0.084 65.8)Closest name: Amaretto Sour (#c09856)Relative luminance 0.361
Colors that go with #c8996a
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 #c8996a: 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 #c8996a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #c8996a 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 #c8996a, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #c8996a, as the surface under it.
Chocolate #d2691e
shippedChocolate shows up next to #c8996a in 4 real palettes, including Homestead and Wellness, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #c8996a: 6 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #c8996a in 6 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #c8996a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c8996a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.55:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.22:1 | 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 #c8996a as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#c8996a reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c8996a
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 #c8996a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c8996a-c4b59c-62c9cb-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