Color

#b18d59

#b18d59
hex#b18d59
rgbrgb(177, 141, 89)
hslhsl(35, 36%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.665 0.082 75.8)
Closest name: Barista’s Favourite (#bb8d4e)Relative luminance 0.2912

Colors that go with #b18d59

Cadet Blue, Burlywood and Champagne 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 #b18d59

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#597db1

#b16059 · #a9b159

#59b18c · #8c59b1

Split-complementary

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#59a9b1 · #6059b1

#59b160 · #597db1 · #b159a9

Contrast

#b18d59 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.08:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8e6f43 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #6c5433 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.6:1)
Aaon black
6.82:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b4915f 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 #b18d59 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#b18d59 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b18d59
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 #b18d59 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b18d59-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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