Oatmeal
Open in tool →Four warm greys from bark to oat — the neutral palette that photographs well and never argues with a product shot.
Color
#b1978c
#b1978c
hex
#b1978crgb
rgb(177, 151, 140)hsl
hsl(18, 19%, 62%)oklch
oklch(0.697 0.035 44.3)Closest name: Coca Mocha (#bd9d95)Relative luminance 0.3337
Colors that go with #b1978c
Charcoal, Cadet Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #b1978c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #b1978c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #b1978c in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Polaroid, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #b1978c in 6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bramble, as the surface under it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #b1978c in 6 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod is paired with #b1978c in 4 real palettes, including Open House and Noir Beauty, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #b1978c in 5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Canopy, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #b1978c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b1978c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.74:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.67:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b1978c 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
#b1978c reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b1978c
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #b1978c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b1978c-c4ad9c-62cbb8-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md