Color

#b85d56

#b85d56
hex#b85d56
rgbrgb(184, 93, 86)
hslhsl(4, 41%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.586 0.119 25.9)
Closest name: Barbecue (#c26157)Relative luminance 0.1869

Colors that go with #b85d56

Charcoal, Sea Green and Steel Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#56b2b8

#b85681 · #b88e56

#56b85d · #5d56b8

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#56b88e · #5681b8

#81b856 · #56b2b8 · #8e56b8

Contrast

#b85d56 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.43:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #b75952 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #8c403b as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #080808 (4.52:1)
Aaon black
4.74:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #c9837e as the text (7.03:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b85d56 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

#b85d56 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b85d56
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 #b85d56 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b85d56-c4a39c-62cb9f-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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