Color

#ba8987

#ba8987
hex#ba8987
rgbrgb(186, 137, 135)
hslhsl(2, 27%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.677 0.06 21.4)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.3008

Colors that go with #ba8987

Cadet Blue, Charcoal 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 #ba8987

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#87b8ba

#ba879f · #baa287

#87ba89 · #8987ba

Split-complementary

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#87baa2 · #879fba

#9fba87 · #87b8ba · #a287ba

Contrast

#ba8987 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.99:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a46360 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #7e4a49 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.02:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ba8987 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

#ba8987 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ba8987
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 #ba8987 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ba8987-c4a29c-62cb9c-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md