Color

#bca971

#bca971
hex#bca971
rgbrgb(188, 169, 113)
hslhsl(45, 36%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.738 0.077 91.5)
Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.4026

Colors that go with #bca971

Charcoal, Lilac 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7184bc

#bc8471 · #a9bc71

#71bca9 · #a971bc

Split-complementary

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#71a9bc · #8471bc

#71bc84 · #7184bc · #bc71a9

Contrast

#bca971 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.32:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #877540 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #65572f as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.1:1)
Aaon black
9.05:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bca971 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#bca971 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bca971
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 #bca971 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bca971-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md