Color

#bab478

#bab478
hex#bab478
rgbrgb(186, 180, 120)
hslhsl(55, 32%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.761 0.08 103.2)
Closest name: Sand (#c2b280)Relative luminance 0.4444

Colors that go with #bab478

Charcoal, Lilac and Cadet 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#787eba

#ba9478 · #9eba78

#78bab4 · #b478ba

Split-complementary

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#789eba · #9478ba

#78ba94 · #787eba · #ba789e

Contrast

#bab478 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.12:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d7840 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #5e5a31 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.13:1)
Aaon black
9.89:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bab478 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

#bab478 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bab478
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 #bab478 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bab478-bdbea2-4ea0df-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md