Color

#b38f47

#b38f47
hex#b38f47
rgbrgb(179, 143, 71)
hslhsl(40, 43%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.669 0.1 82.8)
Closest name: Barista’s Favourite (#bb8d4e)Relative luminance 0.2968

Colors that go with #b38f47

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 #b38f47

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#476bb3

#b35947 · #a1b347

#47b38f · #8f47b3

Split-complementary

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#47a1b3 · #5947b3

#47b359 · #476bb3 · #b347a1

Contrast

#b38f47 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.03:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8e7239 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #6a552a as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.68:1)
Aaon black
6.94:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b69249 as the text (7.2:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b38f47 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

#b38f47 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b38f47
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 #b38f47 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b38f47-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md