Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Color
#b4b397
#b4b397
hex
#b4b397rgb
rgb(180, 179, 151)hsl
hsl(58, 16%, 65%)oklch
oklch(0.76 0.039 105.6)Closest name: Gargoyle (#abb39e)Relative luminance 0.4418
Colors that go with #b4b397
Charcoal, Lilac and Champagne 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 #b4b397: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #b4b397 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Bramble and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #b4b397, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #b4b397: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #b4b397 in 5 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #b4b397 in 4 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Oatmeal, as the lead colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #b4b397 in 5 real palettes, including Bramble and Sepia Mono, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #b4b397 in 5 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #b4b397
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b4b397 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.14:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.84:1 | 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 #b4b397 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#b4b397 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b4b397
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #b4b397 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b4b397-bcbea2-4e99df-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md