Color

#b299a8

#b299a8
hex#b299a8
rgbrgb(178, 153, 168)
hslhsl(324, 14%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.71 0.036 341.3)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3507

Colors that go with #b299a8

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 #b299a8

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#99b2a3

#b099b2 · #b2999c

#a8b299 · #99a8b2

Split-complementary

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#9cb299 · #99b2b0

#b2b099 · #99b2a3 · #999cb2

Contrast

#b299a8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.62:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8e6b80 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #6c5161 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
8.01:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b299a8 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

#b299a8 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b299a8
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 #b299a8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b299a8-c19faf-6bcb62-2d1f22-f0e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md