Color

#ba9ca2

#ba9ca2
hex#ba9ca2
rgbrgb(186, 156, 162)
hslhsl(348, 18%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.721 0.036 4.5)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3682

Colors that go with #ba9ca2

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 #ba9ca2

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9cbab4

#ba9cb1 · #baa59c

#a2ba9c · #9ca2ba

Split-complementary

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#9cbaa5 · #9cb1ba

#b1ba9c · #9cbab4 · #a59cba

Contrast

#ba9ca2 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.51:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #966972 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #724f56 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.14:1)
Aaon black
8.36:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ba9ca2 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

#ba9ca2 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ba9ca2
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 #ba9ca2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ba9ca2-c49c9f-62cb83-2d231f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md