Clean Beauty
Open in tool →Sage and clay on unbleached white — the nothing-to-hide palette for ingredient-led skincare.
Color
#ba685a
#ba685a
hex
#ba685argb
rgb(186, 104, 90)hsl
hsl(9, 41%, 54%)oklch
oklch(0.607 0.108 30.7)Closest name: Barbecue (#c26157)Relative luminance 0.2108
Colors that go with #ba685a
Cadet Blue, Charcoal 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #ba685a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ba685a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #ba685a in 4 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Blush, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Brown #a52a2a
shippedBrown is paired with #ba685a in 4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Garnet, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #ba685a in 4 real palettes, including Bramble and Woodsmoke, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #ba685a in 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Magazine Ochre, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #ba685a in 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Postman's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDodger Blue is paired with #ba685a in 6 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Opensea's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #ba685a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ba685a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.03:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.22:1 | 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 #ba685a 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
#ba685a reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ba685a
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 #ba685a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ba685a-c4a79c-62cba8-2d271f-f1e9ec?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