Color

#b2959e

#b2959e
hex#b2959e
rgbrgb(178, 149, 158)
hslhsl(341, 16%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.699 0.037 357.5)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3343

Colors that go with #b2959e

Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Blush Pink 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 #b2959e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#95b2a9

#b295ad · #b29a95

#9eb295 · #959eb2

Split-complementary

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#95b29a · #95adb2

#adb295 · #95b2a9 · #9a95b2

Contrast

#b2959e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.73:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #946b78 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #6d4f59 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.69:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b2959e 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

#b2959e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b2959e
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 #b2959e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b2959e-c49ca4-62cb77-2d211f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md