Color

#b28b8a

#b28b8a
hex#b28b8a
rgbrgb(178, 139, 138)
hslhsl(1, 21%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.673 0.048 20.1)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.2977

Colors that go with #b28b8a

Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Blush Pink 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 #b28b8a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#8ab2b2

#b28a9d · #b29f8a

#8ab28a · #8a8ab2

Split-complementary

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#8ab29f · #8a9db2

#9db28a · #8ab2b2 · #9f8ab2

Contrast

#b28b8a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.02:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9c6968 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #754d4d as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.69:1)
Aaon black
6.95:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b48d8d as the text (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b28b8a 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

#b28b8a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b28b8a
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 #b28b8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b28b8a-c4a19c-62cb9a-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md