Color

#b9a888

#b9a888
hex#b9a888
rgbrgb(185, 168, 136)
hslhsl(39, 26%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.738 0.048 83.2)
Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.401

Colors that go with #b9a888

Charcoal, Lilac 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 #b9a888

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8899b9

#b98f88 · #b2b988

#88b9a8 · #a888b9

Split-complementary

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#88b2b9 · #8f88b9

#88b98f · #8899b9 · #b988b2

Contrast

#b9a888 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.33:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #87734f as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #64553a as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.08:1)
Aaon black
9.02:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b9a888 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

#b9a888 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b9a888
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 #b9a888 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b9a888-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md