Color

#b48ea3

#b48ea3
hex#b48ea3
rgbrgb(180, 142, 163)
hslhsl(327, 20%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.689 0.054 344.3)
Closest name: Metal Petal (#b090b2)Relative luminance 0.3169

Colors that go with #b48ea3

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 #b48ea3

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8eb49f

#b28eb4 · #b48e90

#a3b48e · #8ea3b4

Split-complementary

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#90b48e · #8eb4b2

#b4b28e · #8eb49f · #8e90b4

Contrast

#b48ea3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.86:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #996682 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #714b60 as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
7.34:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b48ea3 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

#b48ea3 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b48ea3
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 #b48ea3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b48ea3-c19fae-66cb62-2d1f21-f1e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md