Darkroom
Open in tool →Sepia, faded ochre and a teal shadow on aged paper — the photograph-in-a-drawer palette, tuned so it still passes AA.
Color
#bf9b7d
#bf9b7d
hex
#bf9b7drgb
rgb(191, 155, 125)hsl
hsl(27, 34%, 62%)oklch
oklch(0.715 0.06 61.4)Closest name: Beauty and the Beach (#c99680)Relative luminance 0.36
Colors that go with #bf9b7d
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Champagne 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
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #bf9b7d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #bf9b7d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bramble put Champagne beside #bf9b7d, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #bf9b7d: 7 real palettes, including Bakery and Riverbed, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #bf9b7d in 5 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Retro Pop, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #bf9b7d in 6 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #bf9b7d: 5 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Dusk, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #bf9b7d: 4 real palettes, including Spline's brand system and Liquid Death's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #bf9b7d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bf9b7d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.56:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.2:1 | 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 #bf9b7d 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
#bf9b7d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bf9b7d
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 #bf9b7d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bf9b7d-c4b39c-62cbc7-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?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