Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#c99a73
#c99a73
hex
#c99a73rgb
rgb(201, 154, 115)hsl
hsl(27, 44%, 62%)oklch
oklch(0.721 0.077 60.8)Closest name: Beauty and the Beach (#c99680)Relative luminance 0.3677
Colors that go with #c99a73
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Deep Sky 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
split-complementshippedCadet Blue is a split-complement of #c99a73: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #c99a73: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #c99a73 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #c99a73, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bramble put Champagne beside #c99a73, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #c99a73: 7 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #c99a73 in 6 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #c99a73 in 7 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #c99a73
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c99a73 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.51:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.35:1 | 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 #c99a73 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#c99a73 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c99a73
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 #c99a73 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c99a73-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