Clean Beauty
Open in tool →Sage and clay on unbleached white — the nothing-to-hide palette for ingredient-led skincare.
Color
#b16359
#b16359
hex
#b16359rgb
rgb(177, 99, 89)hsl
hsl(7, 36%, 52%)oklch
oklch(0.586 0.103 28.3)Closest name: Amaretto (#ab6f60)Relative luminance 0.1899
Colors that go with #b16359
Charcoal, Sea Green 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 #b16359: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #b16359 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #b16359 in 5 real palettes, including Trailhead and Ember, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #b16359: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Bramble and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #b16359, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #b16359 in 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Magazine Ochre, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #b16359: 8 real palettes, including Dusk and Dyson's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #b16359: 5 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Opensea's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #b16359
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b16359 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.38:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.8:1 | 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 #b16359 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
#b16359 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b16359
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 #b16359 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b16359-c4a59c-62cba4-2d271f-f1e9ec?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