Color

#b0969e

#b0969e
hex#b0969e
rgbrgb(176, 150, 158)
hslhsl(342, 14%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.699 0.033 357.5)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3351

Colors that go with #b0969e

Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Burlywood 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.

Real palettes that use #b0969e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#96b0a8

#b096ab · #b09b96

#9eb096 · #969eb0

Split-complementary

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#96b09b · #96abb0

#abb096 · #96b0a8 · #9b96b0

Contrast

#b0969e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.73:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8e6b76 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #6c5159 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.7:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b0969e as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#b0969e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b0969e
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 #b0969e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b0969e-c49ca3-62cb79-2d211f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md