Color

#b18a5d

#b18a5d
hex#b18a5d
rgbrgb(177, 138, 93)
hslhsl(32, 35%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.66 0.077 69.8)
Closest name: Barista’s Favourite (#bb8d4e)Relative luminance 0.2831

Colors that go with #b18a5d

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Cornflower 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 #b18a5d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#5d84b1

#b1605d · #aeb15d

#5db18a · #8a5db1

Split-complementary

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#5daeb1 · #605db1

#5db160 · #5d84b1 · #b15dae

Contrast

#b18a5d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.15:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #916e46 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #6e5435 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.62:1)
Aaon black
6.66:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b48f64 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 #b18a5d 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

#b18a5d reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b18a5d
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 #b18a5d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b18a5d-c4b69c-62c5cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md