Color

#b9938d

#b9938d
hex#b9938d
rgbrgb(185, 147, 141)
hslhsl(8, 24%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.697 0.047 28.7)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.331

Colors that go with #b9938d

Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Blush Pink 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 #b9938d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#8db3b9

#b98d9d · #b9a98d

#8db993 · #938db9

Split-complementary

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#8db9a9 · #8d9db9

#9db98d · #8db3b9 · #a98db9

Contrast

#b9938d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.76:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9e6961 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #754e48 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.62:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b9938d as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#b9938d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b9938d
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 #b9938d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b9938d-c4a69c-62cba6-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md