Color

#ba977d

#ba977d
hex#ba977d
rgbrgb(186, 151, 125)
hslhsl(26, 31%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.702 0.056 58.3)
Closest name: Beauty and the Beach (#c99680)Relative luminance 0.3405

Colors that go with #ba977d

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 #ba977d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7da0ba

#ba7d81 · #bab67d

#7dba97 · #977dba

Split-complementary

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#7dbab6 · #7d81ba

#81ba7d · #7da0ba · #b67dba

Contrast

#ba977d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.69:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #966e4f as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #6e513a as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.13:1)
Aaon black
7.81:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ba977d 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

#ba977d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ba977d
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 #ba977d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ba977d-c4b29c-62cbc5-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md