Color

#b7ae8a

#b7ae8a
hex#b7ae8a
rgbrgb(183, 174, 138)
hslhsl(48, 24%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.749 0.05 95.7)
Closest name: Sand (#c2b280)Relative luminance 0.4217

Colors that go with #b7ae8a

Charcoal, Lilac 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 #b7ae8a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8a93b7

#b7988a · #aab78a

#8ab7ae · #ae8ab7

Split-complementary

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#8aaab7 · #988ab7

#8ab798 · #8a93b7 · #b78aaa

Contrast

#b7ae8a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.23:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e754e as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #5f583a as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.23:1)
Aaon black
9.43:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b7ae8a 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

#b7ae8a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b7ae8a
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 #b7ae8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b7ae8a-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md