Color

#b5979c

#b5979c
hex#b5979c
rgbrgb(181, 151, 156)
hslhsl(350, 17%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.705 0.036 6.8)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3436

Colors that go with #b5979c

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 #b5979c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#97b5b0

#b597ab · #b5a197

#9cb597 · #979cb5

Split-complementary

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#97b5a1 · #97abb5

#abb597 · #97b5b0 · #a197b5

Contrast

#b5979c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.67:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #956a71 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #715056 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.87:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b5979c 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

#b5979c reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b5979c
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 #b5979c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b5979c-c49c9e-62cb87-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md