Color

#bb8177

#bb8177
hex#bb8177
rgbrgb(187, 129, 119)
hslhsl(9, 33%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.659 0.074 30)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.276

Colors that go with #bb8177

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.

Real palettes that use #bb8177

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#77b1bb

#bb778f · #bba377

#77bb81 · #8177bb

Split-complementary

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#77bba3 · #778fbb

#8fbb77 · #77b1bb · #a377bb

Contrast

#bb8177 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.22:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #aa6255 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #7d493f as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.52:1)
Aaon black
6.52:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #be887e as the text (7.01:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #bb8177 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

#bb8177 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bb8177
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 #bb8177 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bb8177-c4a79c-62cba8-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md