Color

#c8a256

#c8a256
hex#c8a256
rgbrgb(200, 162, 86)
hslhsl(40, 51%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.731 0.105 83.1)
Closest name: Amaretto Sour (#c09856)Relative luminance 0.3879

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#567cc8

#c86956 · #b5c856

#56c8a2 · #a256c8

Split-complementary

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#56b5c8 · #6956c8

#56c869 · #567cc8 · #c856b5

Contrast

#c8a256 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.4:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #92712f as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #6c5423 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.11:1)
Aaon black
8.76:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c8a256 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

#c8a256 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c8a256
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 #c8a256 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c8a256-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md