Color

#b59baa

#b59baa
hex#b59baa
rgbrgb(181, 155, 170)
hslhsl(325, 15%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.717 0.037 342.5)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3617

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9bb5a6

#b39bb5 · #b59b9d

#aab59b · #9baab5

Split-complementary

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#9db59b · #9bb5b3

#b5b39b · #9bb5a6 · #9b9db5

Contrast

#b59baa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.55:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #906a80 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #6d5061 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
8.23:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b59baa 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

#b59baa reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b59baa
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 #b59baa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b59baa-c19faf-69cb62-2d1f21-f0e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md