Kiln
Open in tool →Fired clay and ash on a dark umber — the earthy dark mode; warm enough that the dark surface reads as material, not void.
Color
#cb8257
#cb8257
hex
#cb8257rgb
rgb(203, 130, 87)hsl
hsl(22, 53%, 57%)oklch
oklch(0.673 0.108 50.6)Closest name: peru (#cd853f)Relative luminance 0.2935
Colors that go with #cb8257
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Amber 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 #cb8257 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 #cb8257: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #cb8257 in 4 real palettes, including Maple and Beach Hut, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #cb8257, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #cb8257 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #cb8257, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #cb8257 in 4 real palettes, including Burger King's brand system and Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #cb8257 in 7 real palettes, including Cider and Forest Floor, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #cb8257
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cb8257 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.06:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.87:1 | 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 #cb8257 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
#cb8257 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cb8257
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 #cb8257 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cb8257-c4af9c-62cbbf-2d2a1f-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