Color

#b8952e

#b8952e
hex#b8952e
rgbrgb(184, 149, 46)
hslhsl(45, 60%, 45%)
oklchoklch(0.684 0.124 89.3)
Closest name: Faint Gold (#b59410)Relative luminance 0.3188

Colors that go with #b8952e

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Cadet 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

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#2e50b8

#b8502e · #95b82e

#2eb895 · #952eb8

Split-complementary

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#2e95b8 · #502eb8

#2eb850 · #2e50b8 · #b82e95

Contrast

#b8952e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.85:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8b7123 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #6a561b as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.38:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b8952e 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

#b8952e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b8952e
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 #b8952e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b8952e-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md