Color

#b38f4d

#b38f4d
hex#b38f4d
rgbrgb(179, 143, 77)
hslhsl(39, 40%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.67 0.095 81.1)
Closest name: Barista’s Favourite (#bb8d4e)Relative luminance 0.2976

Colors that go with #b38f4d

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 #b38f4d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#4d70b3

#b35c4d · #a3b34d

#4db38f · #8f4db3

Split-complementary

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#4da3b3 · #5c4db3

#4db35c · #4d70b3 · #b34da3

Contrast

#b38f4d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.02:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8f723d as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #6b562e as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.69:1)
Aaon black
6.95:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b49150 as the text (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b38f4d 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

#b38f4d reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b38f4d
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 #b38f4d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b38f4d-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md