Color

#b79ea6

#b79ea6
hex#b79ea6
rgbrgb(183, 158, 166)
hslhsl(341, 15%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.724 0.031 356.6)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3727

Colors that go with #b79ea6

Charcoal, Dark Sea Green 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 #b79ea6

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9eb7af

#b79eb3 · #b7a39e

#a6b79e · #9ea6b7

Split-complementary

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#9eb7a3 · #9eb3b7

#b3b79e · #9eb7af · #a39eb7

Contrast

#b79ea6 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.48:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #936c78 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #6d5059 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.01:1)
Aaon black
8.45:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b79ea6 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

#b79ea6 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b79ea6
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 #b79ea6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b79ea6-c49ca4-62cb77-2d211f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md