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
#d48240
#d48240
hex
#d48240rgb
rgb(212, 130, 64)hsl
hsl(27, 63%, 54%)oklch
oklch(0.682 0.129 56.9)Closest name: peru (#cd853f)Relative luminance 0.3033
Colors that go with #d48240
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 #d48240: 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 #d48240: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #d48240 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 #d48240 in 5 real palettes, including Maple and Ahrefs's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #d48240, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #d48240 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #d48240, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #d48240 in 4 real palettes, including Burger King's brand system and Retro Pop, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #d48240
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #d48240 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.97:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.07:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #d48240 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#d48240 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #d48240
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 #d48240 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/d48240-c4b39c-62cbc7-2d2c1f-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