Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#b9683c
#b9683c
hex
#b9683crgb
rgb(185, 104, 60)hsl
hsl(21, 51%, 48%)oklch
oklch(0.601 0.119 47.8)Closest name: Boho Copper (#b96033)Relative luminance 0.2054
Colors that go with #b9683c
Charcoal, Royal Blue and Steel 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #b9683c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Royal Blue #4169e1
split-complementshippedRoyal Blue is a split-complement of #b9683c: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #b9683c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #b9683c in 5 real palettes, including Trailhead and Maple, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Garnet and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #b9683c, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #b9683c: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Bramble and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #b9683c, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #b9683c in 4 real palettes, including Redfin's brand system and Walgreens's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #b9683c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b9683c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.11:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.11:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b9683c 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
#b9683c reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b9683c
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #b9683c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b9683c-c4af9c-62cbbd-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md