Color

#b5938c

#b5938c
hex#b5938c
rgbrgb(181, 147, 140)
hslhsl(10, 22%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.693 0.042 31.7)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.3258

Colors that go with #b5938c

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 #b5938c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#8caeb5

#b58c9a · #b5a88c

#8cb593 · #938cb5

Split-complementary

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#8cb5a8 · #8c9ab5

#9ab58c · #8caeb5 · #a88cb5

Contrast

#b5938c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.79:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #986b61 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #704e48 as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.09:1)
Aaon black
7.52:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b5938c 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

#b5938c reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b5938c
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 #b5938c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b5938c-c4a79c-62cbaa-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md