Color

#b3989d

#b3989d
hex#b3989d
rgbrgb(179, 152, 157)
hslhsl(349, 15%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.705 0.033 5.4)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3447

Colors that go with #b3989d

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 #b3989d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#98b3ae

#b398ab · #b3a198

#9db398 · #989db3

Split-complementary

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#98b3a1 · #98abb3

#abb398 · #98b3ae · #a198b3

Contrast

#b3989d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.66:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #936c73 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #6d5055 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.89:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b3989d 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

#b3989d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b3989d
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 #b3989d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b3989d-c49c9f-62cb85-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md