Clean Beauty
Open in tool →Sage and clay on unbleached white — the nothing-to-hide palette for ingredient-led skincare.
Color
#bfb397
#bfb397
hex
#bfb397rgb
rgb(191, 179, 151)hsl
hsl(42, 24%, 67%)oklch
oklch(0.769 0.041 87.6)Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.4555
Colors that go with #bfb397
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 #bfb397: 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 #bfb397, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #bfb397: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #bfb397 in 5 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 #bfb397 in 5 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Undergrowth, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #bfb397: 4 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Open House, as the accent.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #bfb397 in 5 real palettes, including Bramble and Sepia Mono, as the lead colour.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
split-complementshippedSky Blue is a split-complement of #bfb397: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #bfb397
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bfb397 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.08:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.11:1 | 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 #bfb397 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
#bfb397 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bfb397
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 #bfb397 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bfb397-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