Color

#b88ea1

#b88ea1
hex#b88ea1
rgbrgb(184, 142, 161)
hslhsl(333, 23%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.692 0.057 349.8)
Closest name: Metal Petal (#b090b2)Relative luminance 0.3211

Colors that go with #b88ea1

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 #b88ea1

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8eb8a5

#b88eb6 · #b8908e

#a1b88e · #8ea1b8

Split-complementary

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#8eb890 · #8eb6b8

#b6b88e · #8eb8a5 · #908eb8

Contrast

#b88ea1 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.83:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9f657f as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #774b5f as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.42:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b88ea1 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

#b88ea1 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b88ea1
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 #b88ea1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b88ea1-c49ca9-62cb69-2d1f20-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md