Color
#b3baa0
#b3baa0rgb(179, 186, 160)hsl(76, 16%, 68%)oklch(0.776 0.037 119.5)Colors that go with #b3baa0
Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #b3baa0: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Bramble and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #b3baa0, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #b3baa0: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #b3baa0 in 5 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #b3baa0 in 4 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Oatmeal, as the lead colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #b3baa0 in 5 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Bramble, as the lead colour.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #b3baa0 in 4 real palettes, including Ubereats's brand system and Scale AI's brand system, as the lead colour.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryLilac sits directly opposite #b3baa0 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #b3baa0
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b3baa0 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.01:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.45:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b3baa0 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #b3baa0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/b3baa0-b3bea2-4e6edf-232d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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