Color

#b59797

#b59797
hex#b59797
rgbrgb(181, 151, 151)
hslhsl(0, 17%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.704 0.036 18)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.3419

Colors that go with #b59797

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 #b59797

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#97b5b5

#b597a6 · #b5a697

#97b597 · #9797b5

Split-complementary

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#97b5a6 · #97a6b5

#a6b597 · #97b5b5 · #a697b5

Contrast

#b59797 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.68:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #956a6a as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #715050 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.15:1)
Aaon black
7.84:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b59797 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

#b59797 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b59797
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 #b59797 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b59797-c4a19c-62cb98-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md