Color

#c99240

#c99240
hex#c99240
rgbrgb(201, 146, 64)
hslhsl(36, 56%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.698 0.118 74.3)
Closest name: Amaretto Sour (#c09856)Relative luminance 0.3335

Colors that go with #c99240

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#4077c9

#c94e40 · #bbc940

#40c992 · #9240c9

Split-complementary

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#40bbc9 · #4e40c9

#40c94e · #4077c9 · #c940bb

Contrast

#c99240 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.74:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #976c2b as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #735221 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7:1)
Aaon black
7.67:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c99240 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

#c99240 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c99240
live endpoint

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.

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

analyze #c99240 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c99240-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md