Color

#b78fa1

#b78fa1
hex#b78fa1
rgbrgb(183, 143, 161)
hslhsl(333, 22%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.693 0.054 349.8)
Closest name: Metal Petal (#b090b2)Relative luminance 0.3229

Colors that go with #b78fa1

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 #b78fa1

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8fb7a5

#b78fb5 · #b7918f

#a1b78f · #8fa1b7

Split-complementary

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#8fb791 · #8fb5b7

#b5b78f · #8fb7a5 · #918fb7

Contrast

#b78fa1 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.82:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9c637d as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #764c5f as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.46:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b78fa1 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

#b78fa1 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b78fa1
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 #b78fa1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b78fa1-c49ca9-62cb69-2d1f20-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md