Color

#b98e5b

#b98e5b
hex#b98e5b
rgbrgb(185, 142, 91)
hslhsl(33, 40%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.676 0.085 70.3)
Closest name: Barista’s Favourite (#bb8d4e)Relative luminance 0.3042

Colors that go with #b98e5b

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Cornflower 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.

Real palettes that use #b98e5b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5b85b9

#b95f5b · #b4b95b

#5bb98e · #8e5bb9

Split-complementary

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#5bb4b9 · #5f5bb9

#5bb95f · #5b85b9 · #b95bb4

Contrast

#b98e5b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.96:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #966f40 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #6f522f as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.08:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b98e5b 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

#b98e5b reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b98e5b
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 #b98e5b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b98e5b-c4b79c-62c4cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md