Color

#b09c9f

#b09c9f
hex#b09c9f
rgbrgb(176, 156, 159)
hslhsl(351, 11%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.711 0.024 7.4)
Closest name: Coca Mocha (#bd9d95)Relative luminance 0.3551

Colors that go with #b09c9f

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 #b09c9f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9cb0ad

#b09ca9 · #b0a39c

#9fb09c · #9c9fb0

Split-complementary

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#9cb0a3 · #9ca9b0

#a9b09c · #9cb0ad · #a39cb0

Contrast

#b09c9f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.59:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8b6f73 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #665255 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
8.1:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b09c9f 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

#b09c9f reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b09c9f
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 #b09c9f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b09c9f-c49c9e-62cb89-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md