Color

#ba8ca3

#ba8ca3
hex#ba8ca3
rgbrgb(186, 140, 163)
hslhsl(330, 25%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.691 0.064 347.4)
Closest name: Metal Petal (#b090b2)Relative luminance 0.3184

Colors that go with #ba8ca3

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 #ba8ca3

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8cbaa3

#ba8cba · #ba8c8c

#a3ba8c · #8ca3ba

Split-complementary

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#8cba8c · #8cbaba

#baba8c · #8cbaa3 · #8c8cba

Contrast

#ba8ca3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.85:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a16382 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #794961 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.37:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ba8ca3 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

#ba8ca3 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ba8ca3
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 #ba8ca3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ba8ca3-c49cab-62cb64-2d1f20-f1e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md