Color

#c8a579

#c8a579
hex#c8a579
rgbrgb(200, 165, 121)
hslhsl(33, 42%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.743 0.072 72.7)
Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.4057

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#799dc8

#c87d79 · #c4c879

#79c8a5 · #a579c8

Split-complementary

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#79c4c8 · #7d79c8

#79c87d · #799dc8 · #c879c4

Contrast

#c8a579 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.3:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #946d3d as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #70522e as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.71:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.15:1)
Aaon black
9.11:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c8a579 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

#c8a579 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c8a579
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 #c8a579 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c8a579-c4b79c-62c4cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md