Paper & Pine
Open in tool →Deep pine on paper-white with a marmalade accent — a quiet, sustainable-brand palette that isn't beige.
Color
#dc8d32
#dc8d32
hex
#dc8d32rgb
rgb(220, 141, 50)hsl
hsl(32, 71%, 53%)oklch
oklch(0.71 0.14 65.1)Closest name: peru (#cd853f)Relative luminance 0.345
Colors that go with #dc8d32
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Amber 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 #dc8d32: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #dc8d32 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 #dc8d32 in 4 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Maple, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #dc8d32 in 4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Kiln, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #dc8d32: 5 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #dc8d32, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #dc8d32 in 6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Cider, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #dc8d32: 10 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Campus, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #dc8d32
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #dc8d32 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.66:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.9:1 | 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 #dc8d32 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
#dc8d32 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #dc8d32
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 #dc8d32 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/dc8d32-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