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
#cd8256
#cd8256
hex
#cd8256rgb
rgb(205, 130, 86)hsl
hsl(22, 54%, 57%)oklch
oklch(0.676 0.11 50.4)Closest name: peru (#cd853f)Relative luminance 0.2962
Colors that go with #cd8256
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 #cd8256 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 #cd8256: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #cd8256 in 5 real palettes, including Maple and Beach Hut, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and Sketch's brand system put Blue beside #cd8256, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Blush and Estate put Blush Pink beside #cd8256, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #cd8256 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 #cd8256, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #cd8256 in 4 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #cd8256
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cd8256 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.03:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.92:1 | 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 #cd8256 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
#cd8256 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cd8256
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 #cd8256 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cd8256-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