Color

#bab487

#bab487
hex#bab487
rgbrgb(186, 180, 135)
hslhsl(53, 27%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.764 0.061 101.3)
Closest name: Sand (#c2b280)Relative luminance 0.4483

Colors that go with #bab487

Charcoal, Lilac and Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#878dba

#ba9b87 · #a7ba87

#87bab4 · #b487ba

Split-complementary

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#87a7ba · #9b87ba

#87ba9b · #878dba · #ba87a7

Contrast

#bab487 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.11:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b7547 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #5e5936 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.18:1)
Aaon black
9.97:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bab487 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

#bab487 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bab487
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 #bab487 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bab487-c4c49c-4ea5df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md