Color

#b5a097

#b5a097
hex#b5a097
rgbrgb(181, 160, 151)
hslhsl(18, 17%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.722 0.028 44.6)
Closest name: Coca Mocha (#bd9d95)Relative luminance 0.372

Colors that go with #b5a097

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Champagne 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 #b5a097

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#97acb5

#b5979d · #b5af97

#97b5a0 · #a097b5

Split-complementary

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#97b5af · #979db5

#9db597 · #97acb5 · #af97b5

Contrast

#b5a097 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.49:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8c7063 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #68534a as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.21:1)
Aaon black
8.44:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b5a097 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#b5a097 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b5a097
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 #b5a097 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b5a097-c4ad9c-62cbb8-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md