Color

#b8a589

#b8a589
hex#b8a589
rgbrgb(184, 165, 137)
hslhsl(36, 25%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.731 0.045 77.5)
Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.3891

Colors that go with #b8a589

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Champagne 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 #b8a589

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#899cb8

#b88e89 · #b4b889

#89b8a5 · #a589b8

Split-complementary

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#89b4b8 · #8e89b8

#89b88e · #899cb8 · #b889b4

Contrast

#b8a589 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.39:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #897352 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #66563d as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.13:1)
Aaon black
8.78:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b8a589 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

#b8a589 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b8a589
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 #b8a589 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b8a589-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md