Mid-Century
Open in tool →Tangerine, teal and mustard on cream — the 1960s lounge trio, one of the few retro palettes with real hue contrast.
Color
#cf8026
#cf8026
hex
#cf8026rgb
rgb(207, 128, 38)hsl
hsl(32, 69%, 48%)oklch
oklch(0.67 0.138 63.7)Closest name: Bronze (#cd7f32)Relative luminance 0.2884
Colors that go with #cf8026
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 #cf8026: 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 #cf8026: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #cf8026 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 #cf8026 in 5 real palettes, including Maple and Ahrefs's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Sketch's brand system put Blue beside #cf8026, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #cf8026 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #cf8026, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #cf8026 in 7 real palettes, including Cider and Forest Floor, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #cf8026
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cf8026 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.1:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.77:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #cf8026 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#cf8026 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cf8026
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 #cf8026 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cf8026-c4b69c-62c5cb-2d2d1f-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