Color

#ba8cb8

#ba8cb8
hex#ba8cb8
rgbrgb(186, 140, 184)
hslhsl(303, 25%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.698 0.082 327.8)
Closest name: Metal Petal (#b090b2)Relative luminance 0.3266

Colors that go with #ba8cb8

Charcoal, Medium Sea Green and Emerald Green 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 #ba8cb8

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8cba8f

#a58cba · #ba8ca1

#b8ba8c · #8cb8ba

Split-complementary

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#a1ba8c · #8cbaa5

#baa58c · #8cba8f · #8ca1ba

Contrast

#ba8cb8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.79:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9f609c as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #764774 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.1:1)
Aaon black
7.53:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ba8cb8 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

#ba8cb8 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ba8cb8
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 #ba8cb8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ba8cb8-c19fbb-8fcb62-2d1f26-eee9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md