Color

#ba857d

#ba857d
hex#ba857d
rgbrgb(186, 133, 125)
hslhsl(8, 31%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.667 0.067 28.6)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.2869

Colors that go with #ba857d

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 #ba857d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7db2ba

#ba7d93 · #baa47d

#7dba85 · #857dba

Split-complementary

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#7dbaa4 · #7d93ba

#93ba7d · #7db2ba · #a47dba

Contrast

#ba857d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.12:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a76358 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #7f4b43 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.54:1)
Aaon black
6.74:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #be8b83 as the text (7.21:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ba857d 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

#ba857d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ba857d
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 #ba857d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ba857d-c4a69c-62cba6-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md