Color

#b299ac

#b299ac
hex#b299ac
rgbrgb(178, 153, 172)
hslhsl(314, 14%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.711 0.04 334.4)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3523

Colors that go with #b299ac

Charcoal, Copper and Denim 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 #b299ac

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#99b29f

#ac99b2 · #b299a0

#acb299 · #99acb2

Split-complementary

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#a0b299 · #99b2ac

#b2ac99 · #99b29f · #99a0b2

Contrast

#b299ac as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.61:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8e6b86 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #694f63 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
8.05:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b299ac 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

#b299ac reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b299ac
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 #b299ac and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b299ac-c19fb5-7ccb62-2d1f24-efe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md