Color

#b8a889

#b8a889
hex#b8a889
rgbrgb(184, 168, 137)
hslhsl(40, 25%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.737 0.047 83.8)
Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.4

Colors that go with #b8a889

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 #b8a889

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8999b8

#b89189 · #b0b889

#89b8a9 · #a989b8

Split-complementary

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#89b0b8 · #9189b8

#89b891 · #8999b8 · #b889b0

Contrast

#b8a889 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.33:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #867450 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #63563b as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.06:1)
Aaon black
9:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b8a889 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

#b8a889 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b8a889
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 #b8a889 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b8a889-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md