Color

#ba8787

#ba8787
hex#ba8787
rgbrgb(186, 135, 135)
hslhsl(0, 27%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.673 0.063 18.8)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.2952

Colors that go with #ba8787

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 #ba8787

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#87baba

#ba87a1 · #baa187

#87ba87 · #8787ba

Split-complementary

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#87baa1 · #87a1ba

#a1ba87 · #87baba · #a187ba

Contrast

#ba8787 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.04:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a66464 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #7e4949 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.65:1)
Aaon black
6.9:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #bc8a8a 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 #ba8787 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

#ba8787 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ba8787
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 #ba8787 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ba8787-c4a19c-62cb98-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md