Color

#b49da5

#b49da5
hex#b49da5
rgbrgb(180, 157, 165)
hslhsl(339, 13%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.719 0.029 354.8)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3653

Colors that go with #b49da5

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 #b49da5

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9db4ac

#b49db0 · #b4a09d

#a5b49d · #9da5b4

Split-complementary

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#9db4a0 · #9db0b4

#b0b49d · #9db4ac · #a09db4

Contrast

#b49da5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.53:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8d6d78 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #6b525b as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.09:1)
Aaon black
8.31:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b49da5 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

#b49da5 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b49da5
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 #b49da5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b49da5-c49ca5-62cb74-2d211f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md