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
#cd844c
#cd844c
hex
#cd844crgb
rgb(205, 132, 76)hsl
hsl(26, 56%, 55%)oklch
oklch(0.678 0.115 56.7)Closest name: peru (#cd853f)Relative luminance 0.3
Colors that go with #cd844c
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Burlywood 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
split-complementshippedCadet Blue is a split-complement of #cd844c: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #cd844c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #cd844c in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #cd844c in 6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #cd844c in 7 real palettes, including Cider and Forest Floor, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #cd844c in 5 real palettes, including Dusk and PlanetScale's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #cd844c in 4 real palettes, including Blush and Sepia Mono, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #cd844c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cd844c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7:1 | 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 #cd844c 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
#cd844c reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cd844c
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 #cd844c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cd844c-c4b29c-62cbc5-2d2b1f-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