Color

#b4ab6e

#b4ab6e
hex#b4ab6e
rgbrgb(180, 171, 110)
hslhsl(52, 32%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.735 0.081 100.9)
Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.3995

Colors that go with #b4ab6e

Charcoal, Lilac and Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6e78b4

#b4886e · #9bb46e

#6eb4ab · #ab6eb4

Split-complementary

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#6e9bb4 · #886eb4

#6eb488 · #6e78b4 · #b46e9b

Contrast

#b4ab6e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.34:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d7440 as the text (4.73:1)
  • AAA: use #5e5831 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.06:1)
Aaon black
8.99:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b4ab6e 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

#b4ab6e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b4ab6e
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 #b4ab6e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b4ab6e-c4c39c-4ea7df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md