Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#ca956d
#ca956d
hex
#ca956drgb
rgb(202, 149, 109)hsl
hsl(26, 47%, 61%)oklch
oklch(0.711 0.084 57.9)Closest name: Baker’s Dream (#c98f70)Relative luminance 0.3516
Colors that go with #ca956d
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 #ca956d 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 #ca956d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Blush and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #ca956d, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #ca956d, as the surface under it.
Chocolate #d2691e
shippedChocolate shows up next to #ca956d in 4 real palettes, including Wellness and Homestead, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
split-complementshippedCornflower Blue is a split-complement of #ca956d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ca956d in 5 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 #ca956d in 7 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #ca956d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ca956d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.61:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.03:1 | 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 #ca956d 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
#ca956d reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ca956d
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 #ca956d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ca956d-c4b29c-62cbc5-2d2b1f-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