Color

#b09baa

#b09baa
hex#b09baa
rgbrgb(176, 155, 170)
hslhsl(317, 12%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.713 0.032 336.1)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3558

Colors that go with #b09baa

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 #b09baa

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9bb0a1

#ac9bb0 · #b09ba0

#aab09b · #9baab0

Split-complementary

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#a0b09b · #9bb0ac

#b0ac9b · #9bb0a1 · #9ba0b0

Contrast

#b09baa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.59:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #896c81 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #675161 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
8.12:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b09baa 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

#b09baa reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b09baa
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 #b09baa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b09baa-c19fb3-77cb62-2d1f23-efe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md