Color

#b5957d

#b5957d
hex#b5957d
rgbrgb(181, 149, 125)
hslhsl(26, 27%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.693 0.051 58.6)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.328

Colors that go with #b5957d

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 #b5957d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7d9db5

#b57d81 · #b5b17d

#7db595 · #957db5

Split-complementary

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#7db5b1 · #7d81b5

#81b57d · #7d9db5 · #b17db5

Contrast

#b5957d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.78:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #926f54 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #6b513d as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.13:1)
Aaon black
7.56:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b5957d 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

#b5957d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b5957d
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 #b5957d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b5957d-c4b29c-62cbc5-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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