Color

#b09ca3

#b09ca3
hex#b09ca3
rgbrgb(176, 156, 163)
hslhsl(339, 11%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.712 0.025 354.6)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3565

Colors that go with #b09ca3

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 #b09ca3

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9cb0a9

#b09cad · #b09f9c

#a3b09c · #9ca3b0

Split-complementary

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#9cb09f · #9cadb0

#adb09c · #9cb0a9 · #9f9cb0

Contrast

#b09ca3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.58:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8b6f79 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #665259 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.13:1)
Aaon black
8.13:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b09ca3 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

#b09ca3 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b09ca3
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 #b09ca3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b09ca3-c49ca5-62cb74-2d211f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md