Color

#b8949e

#b8949e
hex#b8949e
rgbrgb(184, 148, 158)
hslhsl(343, 20%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.703 0.045 359.8)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3384

Colors that go with #b8949e

Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Blush Pink 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 #b8949e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#94b8ad

#b894b0 · #b89c94

#9eb894 · #949eb8

Split-complementary

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#94b89c · #94b0b8

#b0b894 · #94b8ad · #9c94b8

Contrast

#b8949e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.7:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #996674 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #744e59 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.09:1)
Aaon black
7.77:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b8949e 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

#b8949e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b8949e
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 #b8949e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b8949e-c49ca3-62cb7b-2d211f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md