Color

#ba8285

#ba8285
hex#ba8285
rgbrgb(186, 130, 133)
hslhsl(357, 29%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.663 0.07 15.6)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.281

Colors that go with #ba8285

Cadet Blue, Charcoal 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 #ba8285

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#82bab7

#ba82a1 · #ba9b82

#85ba82 · #8285ba

Split-complementary

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#82ba9b · #82a1ba

#a1ba82 · #82bab7 · #9b82ba

Contrast

#ba8285 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.17:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a86165 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #804749 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.59:1)
Aaon black
6.62:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #be898b as the text (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ba8285 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

#ba8285 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ba8285
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 #ba8285 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ba8285-c49f9c-62cb93-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md