Named color

Bamboo Forest

#b1a979

hex#b1a979

rgbrgb(177, 169, 121)

hslhsl(51, 26%, 58%)

oklchoklch(0.73 0.066 99.8)

Relative luminance 0.391

Warm Muted Editorial Elegant

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Bamboo Forest on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.

Tints & shades

Tints — toward white

b7b085 bfb892 c6c09f cec9ab d5d1b8 ddd9c5 e5e2d2 eceadf f4f2ec fbfbf9

Shades — toward black

a69d68 978e59 877f4f 746d44 645d3a 544e31 403c26 302d1c 1d1b11 0d0c08

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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b1a979 7880b0

#7880b0

Analogous

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b1a979 b08c78 9cb078

#b08c78 · #9cb078

Triadic

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b1a979 78b0a7 a778b0

#78b0a7 · #a778b0

Split-complementary

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b1a979 789cb0 8c78b0

#789cb0 · #8c78b0

Tetradic

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b1a979 78b08c 7880b0 b0789c

#78b08c · #7880b0 · #b0789c

Contrast

Bamboo Forest as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.38:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #7d764a as the text (4.6:1) AAA: use #5d5737 as the text (7.28:1) AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.56:1) AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.16:1)
Aaon black	8.82:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes 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 Bamboo Forest 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

6b6b2e a8a670 a1421f f6f3ea 2c2a22

Olive Grove

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Olive and straw with a rust accent — Mediterranean and unhurried; good for food, wine and hospitality.

Muted Warm Elegant

Fonts for this mood

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

Warm fonts →Editorial fonts →Elegant fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around Bamboo Forest

live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp

claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp

try this prompt

›analyze #b1a979 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b1a979-c4c29c-4eaadf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md