Color

#b59ba7

#b59ba7
hex#b59ba7
rgbrgb(181, 155, 167)
hslhsl(332, 15%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.716 0.035 348.5)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3606

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9bb5a9

#b59bb4 · #b59c9b

#a7b59b · #9ba7b5

Split-complementary

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#9bb59c · #9bb4b5

#b4b59b · #9bb5a9 · #9c9bb5

Contrast

#b59ba7 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.56:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #906a7c as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #6d505d as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
8.21:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b59ba7 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

#b59ba7 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b59ba7
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 #b59ba7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b59ba7-c49caa-62cb67-2d1f20-f1e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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