Color

#b1959e

#b1959e
hex#b1959e
rgbrgb(177, 149, 158)
hslhsl(341, 15%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.698 0.036 356.7)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3331

Colors that go with #b1959e

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 #b1959e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#95b1a8

#b195ac · #b19a95

#9eb195 · #959eb1

Split-complementary

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#95b19a · #95acb1

#acb195 · #95b1a8 · #9a95b1

Contrast

#b1959e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.74:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #936c78 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #6d5059 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.09:1)
Aaon black
7.66:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b1959e 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

#b1959e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b1959e
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 #b1959e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b1959e-c49ca4-62cb77-2d211f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md