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
#b79d80
#b79d80
hex
#b79d80rgb
rgb(183, 157, 128)hsl
hsl(32, 28%, 61%)oklch
oklch(0.712 0.051 69.9)Closest name: Coca Mocha (#bd9d95)Relative luminance 0.3574
Colors that go with #b79d80
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 #b79d80: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #b79d80 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
shipped5 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Estate put Blush Pink beside #b79d80, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
split-complementshippedCadet Blue is a split-complement of #b79d80: 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 #b79d80, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #b79d80: 7 real palettes, including Bakery and Riverbed, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #b79d80 in 4 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Retro Pop, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #b79d80 in 6 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #b79d80
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b79d80 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.58:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.15:1 | 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 #b79d80 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
#b79d80 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b79d80
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 #b79d80 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b79d80-c4b69c-62c5cb-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