Color

#b09796

#b09796
hex#b09796
rgbrgb(176, 151, 150)
hslhsl(2, 14%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.698 0.03 20.6)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.3357

Colors that go with #b09796

Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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 #b09796

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#96afb0

#b096a2 · #b0a496

#96b097 · #9796b0

Split-complementary

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#96b0a4 · #96a2b0

#a2b096 · #96afb0 · #a496b0

Contrast

#b09796 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.72:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8e6d6b as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #6c5251 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.71:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b09796 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#b09796 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b09796
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 #b09796 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b09796-c4a29c-62cb9c-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md