Color

#b38951

#b38951
hex#b38951
rgbrgb(179, 137, 81)
hslhsl(34, 39%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.658 0.09 73.2)
Closest name: Barista’s Favourite (#bb8d4e)Relative luminance 0.2807

Colors that go with #b38951

Cadet Blue, Charcoal 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 #b38951

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#517cb3

#b35851 · #acb351

#51b389 · #8951b3

Split-complementary

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#51acb3 · #5851b3

#51b358 · #517cb3 · #b351ac

Contrast

#b38951 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.18:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #916e40 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #6e5330 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.58:1)
Aaon black
6.61:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b7905c as the text (7.16:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b38951 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#b38951 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b38951
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 #b38951 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b38951-c4b79c-62c2cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md