Color

#b08e5e

#b08e5e
hex#b08e5e
rgbrgb(176, 142, 94)
hslhsl(35, 34%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.667 0.077 75.4)
Closest name: Barista’s Favourite (#bb8d4e)Relative luminance 0.2938

Colors that go with #b08e5e

Cadet Blue, Cornflower Blue and Burlywood 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.

Real palettes that use #b08e5e

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5e80b0

#b0655e · #a9b05e

#5eb08e · #8e5eb0

Split-complementary

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#5ea9b0 · #655eb0

#5eb065 · #5e80b0 · #b05ea9

Contrast

#b08e5e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.05:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #907147 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #6a5434 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.64:1)
Aaon black
6.88:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b29062 as the text (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b08e5e 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

#b08e5e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b08e5e
live endpoint

Point 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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #b08e5e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b08e5e-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md