Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#c96d45
#c96d45
hex
#c96d45rgb
rgb(201, 109, 69)hsl
hsl(18, 55%, 53%)oklch
oklch(0.632 0.129 43.4)Closest name: chocolate (#d2691e)Relative luminance 0.2378
Colors that go with #c96d45
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Amber 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
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #c96d45 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #c96d45: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #c96d45 in 7 real palettes, including Maple and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Glossier's brand system put Blue beside #c96d45, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #c96d45 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #c96d45, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #c96d45 in 4 real palettes, including Redfin's brand system and Pizza Hut's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #c96d45 in 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Farmers Market, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #c96d45
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c96d45 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.65:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.76:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #c96d45 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Homestead
Open in tool →Timber and olive for homes that photograph in golden hour; nothing here competes with a good listing photo.
Desert Road
Open in tool →Sandstone and sand with a deep teal — the one cool note makes the warm colours look intentional rather than beige.
Fonts for this mood
#c96d45 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c96d45
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 #c96d45 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c96d45-c4ad9c-62cbb8-2d291f-f1e9eb?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