Color

#b49579

#b49579
hex#b49579
rgbrgb(180, 149, 121)
hslhsl(28, 28%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.691 0.054 63.8)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.3258

Colors that go with #b49579

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue 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 #b49579

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7998b4

#b4797b · #b4b279

#79b494 · #9479b4

Split-complementary

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#79b4b2 · #797bb4

#7bb479 · #7998b4 · #b279b4

Contrast

#b49579 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.79:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #906e51 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #6c533d as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.09:1)
Aaon black
7.52:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b49579 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

#b49579 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b49579
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 #b49579 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b49579-c4b39c-62cbc9-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md