Color

#b38fa1

#b38fa1
hex#b38fa1
rgbrgb(179, 143, 161)
hslhsl(330, 19%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.689 0.05 346.9)
Closest name: Metal Petal (#b090b2)Relative luminance 0.318

Colors that go with #b38fa1

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 #b38fa1

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8fb3a1

#b38fb3 · #b38f8f

#a1b38f · #8fa1b3

Split-complementary

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#8fb38f · #8fb3b3

#b3b38f · #8fb3a1 · #8f8fb3

Contrast

#b38fa1 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.85:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #986780 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #734e61 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.36:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b38fa1 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

#b38fa1 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b38fa1
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 #b38fa1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b38fa1-c49cab-62cb64-2d1f20-f1e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md