Color

#ba979a

#ba979a
hex#ba979a
rgbrgb(186, 151, 154)
hslhsl(355, 20%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.709 0.042 12.4)
Closest name: Coca Mocha (#bd9d95)Relative luminance 0.3491

Colors that go with #ba979a

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 #ba979a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#97bab7

#ba97ab · #baa597

#9aba97 · #979aba

Split-complementary

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#97baa5 · #97abba

#abba97 · #97bab7 · #a597ba

Contrast

#ba979a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.63:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9b696d as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #744e51 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7:1)
Aaon black
7.98:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ba979a 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

#ba979a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ba979a
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 #ba979a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ba979a-c49e9c-62cb8f-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md