Desert Road
Open in tool →Sandstone and sand with a deep teal — the one cool note makes the warm colours look intentional rather than beige.
Color
#beb193
#beb193
hex
#beb193rgb
rgb(190, 177, 147)hsl
hsl(42, 25%, 66%)oklch
oklch(0.763 0.044 87.4)Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.445
Colors that go with #beb193
Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #beb193: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #beb193, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #beb193: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clean Beauty, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #beb193 in 4 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #beb193 in 5 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #beb193 in 5 real palettes, including Bramble and Sepia Mono, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #beb193 in 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Pine & Birch, as the accent.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
split-complementshippedSky Blue is a split-complement of #beb193: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #beb193
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #beb193 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.12:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.9:1 | 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 #beb193 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
#beb193 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #beb193
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 #beb193 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/beb193-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?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