Color

#b18f59

#b18f59
hex#b18f59
rgbrgb(177, 143, 89)
hslhsl(37, 36%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.67 0.082 78.2)
Closest name: Barista’s Favourite (#bb8d4e)Relative luminance 0.2971

Colors that go with #b18f59

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Burlywood 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 #b18f59

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#597ab1

#b16359 · #a6b159

#59b18f · #8f59b1

Split-complementary

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#59a6b1 · #6359b1

#59b163 · #597ab1 · #b159a6

Contrast

#b18f59 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.02:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8e7143 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #685331 as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.68:1)
Aaon black
6.94:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b2915c as the text (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b18f59 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

#b18f59 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b18f59
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 #b18f59 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b18f59-c4b99c-62bdcb-2c2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md