Color

#b4958d

#b4958d
hex#b4958d
rgbrgb(180, 149, 141)
hslhsl(12, 21%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.696 0.039 34.8)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.3312

Colors that go with #b4958d

Charcoal, Cadet 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 #b4958d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8dadb4

#b48d99 · #b4a98d

#8db495 · #958db4

Split-complementary

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#8db4a9 · #8d99b4

#99b48d · #8dadb4 · #a98db4

Contrast

#b4958d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.75:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #946b61 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #6f5049 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.06:1)
Aaon black
7.62:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b4958d 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

#b4958d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b4958d
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 #b4958d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b4958d-c4a99c-62cbad-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md