Color

#b5a182

#b5a182
hex#b5a182
rgbrgb(181, 161, 130)
hslhsl(36, 26%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.718 0.049 78.7)
Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.3693

Colors that go with #b5a182

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Blush Pink 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 #b5a182

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8296b5

#b58782 · #b0b582

#82b5a1 · #a182b5

Split-complementary

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#82b0b5 · #8782b5

#82b587 · #8296b5 · #b582b0

Contrast

#b5a182 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.5:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8a7351 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #67563c as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.16:1)
Aaon black
8.39:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b5a182 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

#b5a182 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b5a182
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 #b5a182 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b5a182-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md