Color

#b49488

#b49488
hex#b49488
rgbrgb(180, 148, 136)
hslhsl(16, 23%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.692 0.042 41.6)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.3266

Colors that go with #b49488

Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Blush Pink 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 #b49488

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#88a9b4

#b48892 · #b4aa88

#88b494 · #9488b4

Split-complementary

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#88b4aa · #8892b4

#92b488 · #88a9b4 · #aa88b4

Contrast

#b49488 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.79:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #976d5e as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #6e5045 as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.1:1)
Aaon black
7.53:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b49488 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

#b49488 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b49488
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 #b49488 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b49488-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md