Color
#cba048
#cba048rgb(203, 160, 72)hsl(40, 56%, 54%)oklch(0.729 0.117 82.9)Colors that go with #cba048
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #cba048: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #cba048 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #cba048: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #cba048 in 6 real palettes, including Open House and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #cba048 in 6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Midnight Luxe, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #cba048 in 5 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #cba048 in 6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #cba048 in 6 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Open House, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #cba048
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cba048 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.42:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.66:1 | 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 #cba048 as the background.
Brands using this color
Fonts for this mood
#cba048 reads as warm. 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 #cba048 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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