Color

#b493a2

#b493a2
hex#b493a2
rgbrgb(180, 147, 162)
hslhsl(333, 18%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.698 0.044 349.2)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3318

Colors that go with #b493a2

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 #b493a2

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#93b4a5

#b493b2 · #b49493

#a2b493 · #93a2b4

Split-complementary

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#93b494 · #93b2b4

#b2b493 · #93b4a5 · #9493b4

Contrast

#b493a2 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.75:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #96697d as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #724f5f as the text (7:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.64:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b493a2 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

#b493a2 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b493a2
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 #b493a2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b493a2-c49ca9-62cb69-2d1f20-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md