Color

#b38e6b

#b38e6b
hex#b38e6b
rgbrgb(179, 142, 107)
hslhsl(29, 32%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.673 0.066 64.7)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2999

Colors that go with #b38e6b

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 #b38e6b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6b90b3

#b36b6c · #b3b26b

#6bb38e · #8e6bb3

Split-complementary

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#6bb3b2 · #6b6cb3

#6cb36b · #6b90b3 · #b26bb3

Contrast

#b38e6b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #946f4c as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #6f5339 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.53:1)
Aaon black
7:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b4906e 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 #b38e6b 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

#b38e6b reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b38e6b
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 #b38e6b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b38e6b-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md