Color
#b09ab1
#b09ab1rgb(176, 154, 177)hsl(297, 13%, 65%)oklch(0.713 0.041 324.7)Colors that go with #b09ab1
Charcoal, Medium Sea Green and Blue 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 text near-black for #b09ab1: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryshippedMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #b09ab1 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and Canva's brand system put Blue beside #b09ab1, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #b09ab1: 7 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #b09ab1 in 4 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #b09ab1: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #b09ab1 in 4 real palettes, including Scale AI's brand system and Ledger Dark, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #b09ab1 in 4 real palettes, including Canopy and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #b09ab1
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b09ab1 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.59:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.1:1 | 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 #b09ab1 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #b09ab1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/b09ab1-c19fbe-9acb62-2d1f28-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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