Forest Floor
Open in tool →Moss and bark with a mushroom-cap amber — grounded and quiet, made for long-form nature content.
Color
#d49b59
#d49b59
hex
#d49b59rgb
rgb(212, 155, 89)hsl
hsl(32, 59%, 59%)oklch
oklch(0.731 0.108 68.8)Closest name: Amaretto Sour (#c09856)Relative luminance 0.3816
Colors that go with #d49b59
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #d49b59: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #d49b59 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including League of Legends's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #d49b59, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #d49b59: 7 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #d49b59, as that palette's text colour.
Chocolate #d2691e
shippedChocolate shows up next to #d49b59 in 4 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Homestead, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #d49b59: 5 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #d49b59 in 6 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Burger King's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #d49b59
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #d49b59 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.43:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.63:1 | 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 #d49b59 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
#d49b59 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #d49b59
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 #d49b59 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/d49b59-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