Color

#bcaa85

#bcaa85
hex#bcaa85
rgbrgb(188, 170, 133)
hslhsl(40, 29%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.744 0.055 85)
Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.4113

Colors that go with #bcaa85

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

Open in tool →

#8598bc

#bc8e85 · #b3bc85

#85bcaa · #aa85bc

Split-complementary

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#85b3bc · #8e85bc

#85bc8e · #8598bc · #bc85b3

Contrast

#bcaa85 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.28:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #87734a as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #665738 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
9.23:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bcaa85 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

#bcaa85 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bcaa85
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 #bcaa85 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bcaa85-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md