Color

#bca176

#bca176
hex#bca176
rgbrgb(188, 161, 118)
hslhsl(37, 34%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.723 0.066 79)
Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.3749

Colors that go with #bca176

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 #bca176

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7691bc

#bc7e76 · #b4bc76

#76bca1 · #a176bc

Split-complementary

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#76b4bc · #7e76bc

#76bc7e · #7691bc · #bc76b4

Contrast

#bca176 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.47:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8c7145 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #6a5534 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.04:1)
Aaon black
8.5:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bca176 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

#bca176 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bca176
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 #bca176 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bca176-c4b99c-62bdcb-2c2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md