Color

#b49399

#b49399
hex#b49399
rgbrgb(180, 147, 153)
hslhsl(349, 18%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.695 0.04 5.9)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.3287

Colors that go with #b49399

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 #b49399

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#93b4ae

#b493a9 · #b49d93

#99b493 · #9399b4

Split-complementary

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#93b49d · #93a9b4

#a9b493 · #93b4ae · #9d93b4

Contrast

#b49399 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.77:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #966971 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #724f56 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.57:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b49399 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

#b49399 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b49399
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 #b49399 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b49399-c49c9f-62cb85-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md