Darkroom
Open in tool →Sepia, faded ochre and a teal shadow on aged paper — the photograph-in-a-drawer palette, tuned so it still passes AA.
Color
#b69e7c
#b69e7c
hex
#b69e7crgb
rgb(182, 158, 124)hsl
hsl(35, 28%, 60%)oklch
oklch(0.712 0.055 76.3)Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.3585
Colors that go with #b69e7c
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #b69e7c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #b69e7c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Estate put Blush Pink beside #b69e7c, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
split-complementshippedCadet Blue is a split-complement of #b69e7c: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bramble put Champagne beside #b69e7c, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #b69e7c: 7 real palettes, including Bakery and Riverbed, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #b69e7c in 6 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #b69e7c: 4 real palettes, including Spline's brand system and Liquid Death's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #b69e7c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b69e7c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.57:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.17:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #b69e7c as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#b69e7c reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b69e7c
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #b69e7c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b69e7c-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md