Kiln
Open in tool →Fired clay and ash on a dark umber — the earthy dark mode; warm enough that the dark surface reads as material, not void.
Color
#d47a35
#d47a35
hex
#d47a35rgb
rgb(212, 122, 53)hsl
hsl(26, 65%, 52%)oklch
oklch(0.667 0.139 54.6)Closest name: Bronze (#cd7f32)Relative luminance 0.2817
Colors that go with #d47a35
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 #d47a35: 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 #d47a35: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #d47a35 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 #d47a35 in 6 real palettes, including Maple and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #d47a35, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #d47a35 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 #d47a35, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #d47a35 in 7 real palettes, including Cider and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #d47a35
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #d47a35 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.17:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.63:1 | 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 #d47a35 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#d47a35 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #d47a35
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 #d47a35 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/d47a35-c4b29c-62cbc5-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?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