Color

#b5a797

#b5a797
hex#b5a797
rgbrgb(181, 167, 151)
hslhsl(32, 17%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.736 0.028 71.1)
Closest name: Moorland (#a6ab9b)Relative luminance 0.397

Colors that go with #b5a797

Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 #b5a797

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#97a5b5

#b59897 · #b4b597

#97b5a7 · #a797b5

Split-complementary

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#97b4b5 · #9897b5

#97b598 · #97a5b5 · #b597b4

Contrast

#b5a797 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.35:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #83715d as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #625546 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.02:1)
Aaon black
8.94:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b5a797 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

#b5a797 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b5a797
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 #b5a797 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b5a797-c4b69c-62c5cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md