Color

#ca972f

#ca972f
hex#ca972f
rgbrgb(202, 151, 47)
hslhsl(40, 62%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.708 0.13 80.9)
Closest name: Amaretto Sour (#c09856)Relative luminance 0.349

Colors that go with #ca972f

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.

Real palettes that use #ca972f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2f63ca

#ca492f · #b1ca2f

#2fca97 · #972fca

Split-complementary

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#2fb1ca · #492fca

#2fca49 · #2f63ca · #ca2fb1

Contrast

#ca972f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.63:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #956f23 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #70531a as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
7.98:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ca972f 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

#ca972f reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ca972f
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 #ca972f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ca972f-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md