Color

#b49ca0

#b49ca0
hex#b49ca0
rgbrgb(180, 156, 160)
hslhsl(350, 14%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.715 0.029 6.5)
Closest name: Coca Mocha (#bd9d95)Relative luminance 0.3602

Colors that go with #b49ca0

Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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 #b49ca0

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9cb4b0

#b49cac · #b4a49c

#a0b49c · #9ca0b4

Split-complementary

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#9cb4a4 · #9cacb4

#acb49c · #9cb4b0 · #a49cb4

Contrast

#b49ca0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.56:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8e6b71 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #6c5156 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7:1)
Aaon black
8.2:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b49ca0 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

#b49ca0 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b49ca0
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 #b49ca0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b49ca0-c49c9e-62cb87-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md