Color

#b1a25d

#b1a25d
hex#b1a25d
rgbrgb(177, 162, 93)
hslhsl(49, 35%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.71 0.091 97.4)
Closest name: Cardamom (#aaaa77)Relative luminance 0.3598

Colors that go with #b1a25d

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#5d6db1

#b1785d · #97b15d

#5db1a2 · #a25db1

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#5d97b1 · #785db1

#5db178 · #5d6db1 · #b15d97

Contrast

#b1a25d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.56:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #83763f as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #60572e as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.19:1)
Aaon black
8.2:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b1a25d 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

#b1a25d reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b1a25d
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 #b1a25d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b1a25d-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md