Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#bb9f72
#bb9f72
hex
#bb9f72rgb
rgb(187, 159, 114)hsl
hsl(37, 35%, 59%)oklch
oklch(0.717 0.069 79.1)Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.3658
Colors that go with #bb9f72
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Cornflower 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
split-complementshippedCadet Blue is a split-complement of #bb9f72: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #bb9f72: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #bb9f72 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #bb9f72 in 4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Estate, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #bb9f72 in 6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bramble, as the surface under it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #bb9f72 in 7 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #bb9f72 in 7 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Oatmeal, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #bb9f72 in 5 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Open House, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #bb9f72
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bb9f72 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.53:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.32:1 | 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 #bb9f72 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#bb9f72 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bb9f72
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 #bb9f72 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bb9f72-c4b99c-62bdcb-2c2d1f-f1eae9?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