Color

#ba9178

#ba9178
hex#ba9178
rgbrgb(186, 145, 120)
hslhsl(23, 32%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.689 0.061 52.8)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.3205

Colors that go with #ba9178

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 #ba9178

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#78a1ba

#ba7880 · #bab278

#78ba91 · #9178ba

Split-complementary

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#78bab2 · #7880ba

#80ba78 · #78a1ba · #b278ba

Contrast

#ba9178 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.83:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #976a4e as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #72503b as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.41:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ba9178 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

#ba9178 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ba9178
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 #ba9178 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ba9178-c4b09c-62cbc0-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md