Coffee Bar
Open in tool →Espresso and caramel: a dark-roast palette that photographs latte art beautifully.
Color
peru
#cd853f
hex
#cd853frgb
rgb(205, 133, 63)hsl
hsl(30, 59%, 53%)oklch
oklch(0.678 0.123 62.2)Relative luminance 0.3011
Colors that go with peru
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Cornflower 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
split-complementshippedCadet Blue is a split-complement of peru: 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 peru: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite peru on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with peru in 4 real palettes, including Maple and Ahrefs's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside peru, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with peru in 4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Kiln, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside peru, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to peru in 6 real palettes, including Cider and Forest Floor, as the accent.
Real palettes that use peru
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| peru as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.99:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.02:1 | 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 peru as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
peru reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around peru
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 #cd853f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cd853f-c4b59c-62c9cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?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