Riverbed
Open in tool →Wet-stone green and pebble grey with a copper accent — an earth palette that leans cool, for outdoor and wellness.
Color
#b97a37
#b97a37
hex
#b97a37rgb
rgb(185, 122, 55)hsl
hsl(31, 54%, 47%)oklch
oklch(0.633 0.114 64.6)Closest name: Copper (#b87333)Relative luminance 0.2451
Colors that go with #b97a37
Cadet Blue, Charcoal 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
split-complementshippedCadet Blue is a split-complement of #b97a37: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #b97a37: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #b97a37 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Bramble put Champagne beside #b97a37, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #b97a37 in 8 real palettes, including Cider and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #b97a37: 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Guinness's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #b97a37: 6 real palettes, including Opensea's brand system and Notion's brand system, as the lead colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #b97a37: 4 real palettes, including Newsprint and Chipotle's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #b97a37
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b97a37 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.56:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.9:1 | 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 #b97a37 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
#b97a37 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b97a37
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 #b97a37 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b97a37-c4b59c-62c7cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?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