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Color
#b96955
#b96955
hex
#b96955rgb
rgb(185, 105, 85)hsl
hsl(12, 42%, 53%)oklch
oklch(0.606 0.107 35)Closest name: Barbecue (#c26157)Relative luminance 0.2107
Colors that go with #b96955
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Amber 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #b96955 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #b96955: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #b96955 in 5 real palettes, including Trailhead and Google's brand system, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Garnet put Brown beside #b96955, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Bramble and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #b96955, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #b96955 in 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Magazine Ochre, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #b96955: 8 real palettes, including Dusk and Dyson's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #b96955: 7 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Opensea's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #b96955
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b96955 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.03:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.21:1 | 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 #b96955 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
#b96955 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b96955
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 #b96955 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b96955-c4a99c-62cbad-2d281f-f1e9ec?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