Color

#b99588

#b99588
hex#b99588
rgbrgb(185, 149, 136)
hslhsl(16, 26%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.699 0.047 40.8)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.3359

Colors that go with #b99588

Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Burlywood 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 #b99588

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#88acb9

#b98894 · #b9ae88

#88b995 · #9588b9

Split-complementary

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#88b9ae · #8894b9

#94b988 · #88acb9 · #ae88b9

Contrast

#b99588 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.72:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #976959 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #704e42 as the text (7.35:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.72:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b99588 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

#b99588 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b99588
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 #b99588 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b99588-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md