Color

#b096aa

#b096aa
hex#b096aa
rgbrgb(176, 150, 170)
hslhsl(314, 14%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.703 0.041 334.1)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3395

Colors that go with #b096aa

Charcoal, Burlywood 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.

Real palettes that use #b096aa

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#96b09c

#a996b0 · #b0969d

#aab096 · #96aab0

Split-complementary

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#9db096 · #96b0a9

#b0a996 · #96b09c · #969db0

Contrast

#b096aa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.7:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8e6b86 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #694f63 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.11:1)
Aaon black
7.79:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b096aa 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

#b096aa reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b096aa
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 #b096aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b096aa-c19fb5-7ccb62-2d1f24-efe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md