Color

#ba879d

#ba879d
hex#ba879d
rgbrgb(186, 135, 157)
hslhsl(334, 27%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.68 0.069 351.5)
Closest name: Metal Petal (#b090b2)Relative luminance 0.302

Colors that go with #ba879d

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 #ba879d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#87baa4

#ba87b7 · #ba8b87

#9dba87 · #879dba

Split-complementary

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#87ba8b · #87b7ba

#b7ba87 · #87baa4 · #8b87ba

Contrast

#ba879d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.98:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a4607e as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #7b475d as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.04:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ba879d 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

#ba879d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ba879d
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 #ba879d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ba879d-c49ca9-62cb6b-2d1f1f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md