Named color
Caramel
#af6f09rgb(175, 111, 9)hsl(37, 90%, 36%)oklch(0.596 0.127 69.4)Caramel on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.
Colors that go with Caramel
Steel Blue, Cadet Blue and Champagne 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.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite Caramel on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with Caramel: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Bramble and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside Caramel, as that palette's text colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for Caramel: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to Caramel in 5 real palettes, including Cider and Magazine Ochre, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with Caramel: 5 real palettes, including Dyson's brand system and Dusk, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with Caramel in 4 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with Caramel in 5 real palettes, including Wayfair's brand system and OktaOkta on YoutubeOkta on XOkta on LinkedIn's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use Caramel
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| Caramel as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.12:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.1:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with Caramel 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
Caramel reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #af6f09 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/af6f09-c4b99c-62bdcb-2c2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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