Color

#b18a72

#b18a72
hex#b18a72
rgbrgb(177, 138, 114)
hslhsl(23, 29%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.664 0.059 53)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2874

Colors that go with #b18a72

Charcoal, Cadet Blue 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 #b18a72

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7299b1

#b17279 · #b1aa72

#72b18a · #8a72b1

Split-complementary

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#72b1aa · #7279b1

#79b172 · #7299b1 · #aa72b1

Contrast

#b18a72 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.11:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #976d53 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #70513e as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.55:1)
Aaon black
6.75:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b58f78 as the text (7.16:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b18a72 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

#b18a72 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b18a72
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 #b18a72 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b18a72-c4b09c-62cbc0-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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