Color

#b696aa

#b696aa
hex#b696aa
rgbrgb(182, 150, 170)
hslhsl(323, 18%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.708 0.047 340.5)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3466

Colors that go with #b696aa

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 #b696aa

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#96b6a2

#b296b6 · #b69699

#a9b696 · #96a9b6

Split-complementary

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#99b696 · #96b6b2

#b6b296 · #96b6a2 · #9699b6

Contrast

#b696aa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.65:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #966985 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #6f4d62 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.93:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b696aa 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

#b696aa reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b696aa
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 #b696aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b696aa-c19fb0-6dcb62-2d1f22-f0e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md