Color
#b16035
#b16035rgb(177, 96, 53)hsl(21, 54%, 45%)oklch(0.575 0.12 47)Colors that go with #b16035
Royal Blue, Steel Blue and Cadet 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.
Royal Blue #4169e1
split-complementshippedRoyal Blue is a split-complement of #b16035: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #b16035 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #b16035: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Bramble put Champagne beside #b16035.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #b16035: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
analogousshippedCrimson is #b16035's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #b16035 in 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Magazine Ochre, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #b16035: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Postman's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #b16035
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b16035 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.57:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.59:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b16035 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
#b16035 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #b16035 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/b16035-c4af9c-62cbbd-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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