Color

#b696ab

#b696ab
hex#b696ab
rgbrgb(182, 150, 171)
hslhsl(321, 18%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.709 0.048 339)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.347

Colors that go with #b696ab

Charcoal, Copper and Hunter Green 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 #b696ab

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#96b6a1

#b196b6 · #b6969b

#abb696 · #96abb6

Split-complementary

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#9bb696 · #96b6b1

#b6b196 · #96b6a1 · #969bb6

Contrast

#b696ab as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.64:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #966986 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #6f4d63 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.94:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b696ab 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

#b696ab reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b696ab
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 #b696ab and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b696ab-c19fb1-70cb62-2d1f22-f0e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md