Color

#b48e55

#b48e55
hex#b48e55
rgbrgb(180, 142, 85)
hslhsl(36, 39%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.67 0.088 76.5)
Closest name: Barista’s Favourite (#bb8d4e)Relative luminance 0.2971

Colors that go with #b48e55

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 #b48e55

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#557bb4

#b45e55 · #abb455

#55b48e · #8e55b4

Split-complementary

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#55abb4 · #5e55b4

#55b45e · #557bb4 · #b455ab

Contrast

#b48e55 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.03:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #917140 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #6a522f as the text (7.34:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.68:1)
Aaon black
6.94:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b69058 as the text (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b48e55 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

#b48e55 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b48e55
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 #b48e55 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b48e55-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md