Color

#b8a97a

#b8a97a
hex#b8a97a
rgbrgb(184, 169, 122)
hslhsl(45, 30%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.736 0.066 92.5)
Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.3997

Colors that go with #b8a97a

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7a8ab8

#b88a7a · #a8b87a

#7ab8a8 · #a87ab8

Split-complementary

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#7aa8b8 · #8a7ab8

#7ab88a · #7a8ab8 · #b87aa8

Contrast

#b8a97a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.33:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #857547 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #635836 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.06:1)
Aaon black
8.99:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b8a97a 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

#b8a97a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b8a97a
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 #b8a97a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b8a97a-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md