Olive Grove
Open in tool →Olive and straw with a rust accent — Mediterranean and unhurried; good for food, wine and hospitality.
Color
#b2a16c
#b2a16c
hex
#b2a16crgb
rgb(178, 161, 108)hsl
hsl(45, 31%, 56%)oklch
oklch(0.711 0.074 92.4)Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.3604
Colors that go with #b2a16c
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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
triadicshippedCadet Blue completes a triad with #b2a16c — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #b2a16c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #b2a16c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Estate put Blush Pink beside #b2a16c, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bramble put Champagne beside #b2a16c, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #b2a16c: 7 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #b2a16c in 6 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Oatmeal, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #b2a16c: 5 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Open House, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #b2a16c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b2a16c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.56:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.21:1 | 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 #b2a16c as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#b2a16c reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b2a16c
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 #b2a16c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b2a16c-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?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