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
#d0841b
#d0841b
hex
#d0841brgb
rgb(208, 132, 27)hsl
hsl(35, 77%, 46%)oklch
oklch(0.677 0.142 67.6)Closest name: Bronze (#cd7f32)Relative luminance 0.2999
Colors that go with #d0841b
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 #d0841b: 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 #d0841b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #d0841b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #d0841b, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #d0841b in 4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Kiln, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #d0841b, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #d0841b in 6 real palettes, including Cider and Forest Floor, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #d0841b: 4 real palettes, including Elastic's brand system and Learning App, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #d0841b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #d0841b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 7:1 | 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 #d0841b as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#d0841b reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #d0841b
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 #d0841b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/d0841b-c4b89c-62c0cb-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