Color

#b5877d

#b5877d
hex#b5877d
rgbrgb(181, 135, 125)
hslhsl(11, 27%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.665 0.059 32.5)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.2863

Colors that go with #b5877d

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Blush Pink 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 #b5877d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#7daab5

#b57d8f · #b5a37d

#7db588 · #887db5

Split-complementary

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#7db5a3 · #7d8fb5

#8fb57d · #7daab5 · #a37db5

Contrast

#b5877d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.12:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9f685b as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #784e45 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.54:1)
Aaon black
6.73:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b88e84 as the text (7.24:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b5877d 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

#b5877d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b5877d
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 #b5877d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b5877d-c4a89c-62cbab-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md