Color

#cd8a74

#cd8a74
hex#cd8a74
rgbrgb(205, 138, 116)
hslhsl(15, 47%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.696 0.089 38.9)
Closest name: Baker’s Dream (#c98f70)Relative luminance 0.3242

Colors that go with #cd8a74

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 #cd8a74

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#74b7cd

#cd748a · #cdb774

#74cd8a · #8a74cd

Split-complementary

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#74cdb7 · #748acd

#8acd74 · #74b7cd · #b774cd

Contrast

#cd8a74 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.81:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b45e41 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #874631 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.06:1)
Aaon black
7.48:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cd8a74 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#cd8a74 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cd8a74
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 #cd8a74 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cd8a74-c4ab9c-62cbb2-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md