Color

#b59278

#b59278
hex#b59278
rgbrgb(181, 146, 120)
hslhsl(26, 29%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.686 0.056 58.2)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.3174

Colors that go with #b59278

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 #b59278

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#789ab5

#b5787c · #b5b178

#78b592 · #9278b5

Split-complementary

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#78b5b1 · #787cb5

#7cb578 · #789ab5 · #b178b5

Contrast

#b59278 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.86:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #946e51 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #70533e as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.35:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b59278 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

#b59278 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b59278
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 #b59278 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b59278-c4b29c-62cbc5-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md