Color

#b59478

#b59478
hex#b59478
rgbrgb(181, 148, 120)
hslhsl(28, 29%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.69 0.056 62)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.3236

Colors that go with #b59478

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 #b59478

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7898b5

#b5787a · #b5b378

#78b594 · #9478b5

Split-complementary

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#78b5b3 · #787ab5

#7ab578 · #7898b5 · #b378b5

Contrast

#b59478 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.81:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #916e50 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #6d533c as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.47:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b59478 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

#b59478 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b59478
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 #b59478 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b59478-c4b39c-62cbc9-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md