Color
#b4ae55
#b4ae55rgb(180, 174, 85)hsl(56, 39%, 52%)oklch(0.737 0.112 105.3)Colors that go with #b4ae55
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #b4ae55: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #b4ae55 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including League of Legends's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #b4ae55, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #b4ae55: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Estate, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #b4ae55, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #b4ae55: 5 real palettes, including Bramble and Bakery, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #b4ae55 in 6 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #b4ae55: 5 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Open House, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #b4ae55
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b4ae55 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.3:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.13:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #b4ae55 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
#b4ae55 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #b4ae55 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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