Color

#ba9ca6

#ba9ca6
hex#ba9ca6
rgbrgb(186, 156, 166)
hslhsl(340, 18%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.723 0.038 356.1)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3697

Colors that go with #ba9ca6

Charcoal, Dark 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 #ba9ca6

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9cbab0

#ba9cb5 · #baa19c

#a6ba9c · #9ca6ba

Split-complementary

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#9cbaa1 · #9cb5ba

#b5ba9c · #9cbab0 · #a19cba

Contrast

#ba9ca6 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.5:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #966978 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #724f5b as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.17:1)
Aaon black
8.39:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ba9ca6 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

#ba9ca6 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ba9ca6
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 #ba9ca6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ba9ca6-c49ca5-62cb75-2d211f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md