Clean Beauty
Open in tool →Sage and clay on unbleached white — the nothing-to-hide palette for ingredient-led skincare.
Color
#b8604c
#b8604c
hex
#b8604crgb
rgb(184, 96, 76)hsl
hsl(11, 43%, 51%)oklch
oklch(0.588 0.118 33.9)Closest name: Barbecue (#c26157)Relative luminance 0.1908
Colors that go with #b8604c
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #b8604c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #b8604c — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #b8604c: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #b8604c in 5 real palettes, including Trailhead and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Dunkin''s brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #b8604c, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #b8604c: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Bramble put Champagne beside #b8604c.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #b8604c in 8 real palettes, including Redfin's brand system and Snyk's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #b8604c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b8604c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.36:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.82:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b8604c 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
#b8604c reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b8604c
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 #b8604c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b8604c-c4a89c-62cbab-2d281f-f1e9ec?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