Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Color
#b2b79e
#b2b79e
hex
#b2b79ergb
rgb(178, 183, 158)hsl
hsl(72, 15%, 67%)oklch
oklch(0.769 0.035 116.4)Closest name: Gargoyle (#abb39e)Relative luminance 0.458
Colors that go with #b2b79e
Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #b2b79e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Bramble and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #b2b79e, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #b2b79e: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #b2b79e in 4 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #b2b79e in 4 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Oatmeal, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #b2b79e: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Guinness's brand system, as the lead colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #b2b79e in 5 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Bramble, as the lead colour.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryLilac sits directly opposite #b2b79e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #b2b79e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b2b79e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.07:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.16:1 | 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 #b2b79e as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b2b79e
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 #b2b79e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b2b79e-b5bea2-4e77df-242d1f-f1efe9?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