Color

#ba97a0

#ba97a0
hex#ba97a0
rgbrgb(186, 151, 160)
hslhsl(345, 20%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.711 0.043 1.1)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3511

Colors that go with #ba97a0

Charcoal, Light Sea Green 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 #ba97a0

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#97bab1

#ba97b1 · #baa097

#a0ba97 · #97a0ba

Split-complementary

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#97baa0 · #97b1ba

#b1ba97 · #97bab1 · #a097ba

Contrast

#ba97a0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.62:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #996673 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #744e57 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
8.02:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ba97a0 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

#ba97a0 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ba97a0
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 #ba97a0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ba97a0-c49ca1-62cb7e-2d221f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md