Color

#b16d4e

#b16d4e
hex#b16d4e
rgbrgb(177, 109, 78)
hslhsl(19, 39%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.602 0.098 44.9)
Closest name: Amaretto (#ab6f60)Relative luminance 0.2083

Colors that go with #b16d4e

Steel Blue, Blush Pink 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.

Real palettes that use #b16d4e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#4e92b1

#b14e60 · #b19f4e

#4eb16d · #6d4eb1

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#4eb19f · #4e60b1

#60b14e · #4e92b1 · #9f4eb1

Contrast

#b16d4e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.06:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a36548 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #7c4c36 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #141414 (4.53:1)
Aaon black
5.17:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #c18a71 as the text (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b16d4e 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

#b16d4e reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b16d4e
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 #b16d4e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b16d4e-c4ad9c-62cbb9-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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