Color

#b18872

#b18872
hex#b18872
rgbrgb(177, 136, 114)
hslhsl(21, 29%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.66 0.06 49.5)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2817

Colors that go with #b18872

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Blush Pink 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 #b18872

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#729bb1

#b1727b · #b1a872

#72b188 · #8872b1

Split-complementary

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#72b1a8 · #727bb1

#7bb172 · #729bb1 · #a872b1

Contrast

#b18872 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.17:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #976b53 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #73513f as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.6:1)
Aaon black
6.63:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b58d78 as the text (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b18872 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

#b18872 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b18872
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 #b18872 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b18872-c4af9c-62cbbd-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md