Color

#b49ca6

#b49ca6
hex#b49ca6
rgbrgb(180, 156, 166)
hslhsl(335, 14%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.717 0.031 350.9)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3623

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9cb4aa

#b49cb2 · #b49e9c

#a6b49c · #9ca6b4

Split-complementary

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#9cb49e · #9cb2b4

#b2b49c · #9cb4aa · #9e9cb4

Contrast

#b49ca6 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.55:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8e6b7a as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #6c515c as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
8.25:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b49ca6 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

#b49ca6 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b49ca6
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #b49ca6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b49ca6-c49ca8-62cb6d-2d201f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md