Color

#b38c56

#b38c56
hex#b38c56
rgbrgb(179, 140, 86)
hslhsl(35, 38%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.665 0.086 74.4)
Closest name: Barista’s Favourite (#bb8d4e)Relative luminance 0.2901

Colors that go with #b38c56

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 #b38c56

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#567db3

#b35e56 · #abb356

#56b38c · #8c56b3

Split-complementary

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#56abb3 · #5e56b3

#56b35e · #567db3 · #b356ab

Contrast

#b38c56 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.09:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #906f41 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #6d5431 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.59:1)
Aaon black
6.8:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b58f5a as the text (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b38c56 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

Fonts for this mood

#b38c56 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b38c56
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 #b38c56 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b38c56-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md