Color

#b8ae9d

#b8ae9d
hex#b8ae9d
rgbrgb(184, 174, 157)
hslhsl(38, 16%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.754 0.026 81.1)
Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.429

Colors that go with #b8ae9d

Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 #b8ae9d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9da7b8

#b8a19d · #b5b89d

#9db8ae · #ae9db8

Split-complementary

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#9db5b8 · #a19db8

#9db8a1 · #9da7b8 · #b89db5

Contrast

#b8ae9d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.19:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #82755e as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5545 as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
9.58:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b8ae9d 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

#b8ae9d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b8ae9d
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 #b8ae9d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b8ae9d-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md