Color

#b1983e

#b1983e
hex#b1983e
rgbrgb(177, 152, 62)
hslhsl(47, 48%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.685 0.113 93.6)
Closest name: Faint Gold (#b59410)Relative luminance 0.3215

Colors that go with #b1983e

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 #b1983e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3e57b1

#b15f3e · #91b13e

#3eb198 · #983eb1

Split-complementary

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#3e91b1 · #5f3eb1

#3eb15f · #3e57b1 · #b13e91

Contrast

#b1983e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.83:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #887530 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #665824 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.43:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b1983e as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#b1983e reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b1983e
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 #b1983e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b1983e-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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