Color

#cd9542

#cd9542
hex#cd9542
rgbrgb(205, 149, 66)
hslhsl(36, 58%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.709 0.12 74.2)
Closest name: Amaretto Sour (#c09856)Relative luminance 0.3487

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4279cd

#cd5042 · #bfcd42

#42cd95 · #9542cd

Split-complementary

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#42bfcd · #5042cd

#42cd50 · #4279cd · #cd42bf

Contrast

#cd9542 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.63:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #996c29 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #71501e as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
7.97:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cd9542 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

#cd9542 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cd9542
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

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

analyze #cd9542 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cd9542-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md