Color

#b28957

#b28957
hex#b28957
rgbrgb(178, 137, 87)
hslhsl(33, 37%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.658 0.083 71.1)
Closest name: Barista’s Favourite (#bb8d4e)Relative luminance 0.2804

Colors that go with #b28957

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 #b28957

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#5780b2

#b25c57 · #adb257

#57b289 · #8957b2

Split-complementary

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#57adb2 · #5c57b2

#57b25c · #5780b2 · #b257ad

Contrast

#b28957 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.18:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #936f43 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #6c5232 as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.58:1)
Aaon black
6.61:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b79062 as the text (7.18:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b28957 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#b28957 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b28957
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 #b28957 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b28957-c4b79c-62c4cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md