Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#c9976e
#c9976e
hex
#c9976ergb
rgb(201, 151, 110)hsl
hsl(27, 46%, 61%)oklch
oklch(0.714 0.082 60.3)Closest name: Baker’s Dream (#c98f70)Relative luminance 0.3568
Colors that go with #c9976e
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Blush Pink 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 #c9976e 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 #c9976e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Blush put Blush Pink beside #c9976e, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #c9976e, as the surface under it.
Chocolate #d2691e
shippedChocolate shows up next to #c9976e in 4 real palettes, including Wellness and Homestead, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #c9976e: 6 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
split-complementshippedCornflower Blue is a split-complement of #c9976e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #c9976e in 5 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #c9976e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c9976e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.58:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.14:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #c9976e 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
Fonts for this mood
#c9976e reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c9976e
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 #c9976e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c9976e-c4b39c-62cbc7-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?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