Color

#c8a251

#c8a251
hex#c8a251
rgbrgb(200, 162, 81)
hslhsl(41, 52%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.731 0.109 84.3)
Closest name: Amaretto Sour (#c09856)Relative luminance 0.3871

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5176c8

#c86651 · #b2c851

#51c8a2 · #a251c8

Split-complementary

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#51b2c8 · #6651c8

#51c866 · #5176c8 · #c851b2

Contrast

#c8a251 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.4:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8f702d as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #6d5522 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.1:1)
Aaon black
8.74:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c8a251 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

#c8a251 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c8a251
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #c8a251 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c8a251-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md