Color
#c97559
#c97559rgb(201, 117, 89)hsl(15, 51%, 57%)oklch(0.648 0.114 39.1)Colors that go with #c97559
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 #c97559 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 #c97559: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #c97559 in 6 real palettes, including Maple and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Sketch's brand system put Blue beside #c97559, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #c97559 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 #c97559, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #c97559 in 5 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Redfin's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #c97559 in 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Cider, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #c97559
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c97559 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.4:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.17:1 | 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 #c97559 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
#c97559 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #c97559 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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