Color

#cd8a0e

#cd8a0e
hex#cd8a0e
rgbrgb(205, 138, 14)
hslhsl(39, 87%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.684 0.142 74)
Closest name: peru (#cd853f)Relative luminance 0.3119

Colors that go with #cd8a0e

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Blush Pink 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.

Real palettes that use #cd8a0e

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0e51cd

#cd2b0e · #b0cd0e

#0ecd8a · #8a0ecd

Split-complementary

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#0eb0cd · #2b0ecd

#0ecd2b · #0e51cd · #cd0eb0

Contrast

#cd8a0e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.9:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9d6a0b as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #775008 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.24:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cd8a0e as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#cd8a0e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cd8a0e
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #cd8a0e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cd8a0e-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md