Color

#bb8183

#bb8183
hex#bb8183
rgbrgb(187, 129, 131)
hslhsl(358, 30%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.662 0.072 16.9)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.279

Colors that go with #bb8183

Cadet Blue, Charcoal 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 #bb8183

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#81bbb9

#bb81a0 · #bb9c81

#83bb81 · #8183bb

Split-complementary

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#81bb9c · #81a0bb

#a0bb81 · #81bbb9 · #9c81bb

Contrast

#bb8183 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.19:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a96062 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #854749 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.56:1)
Aaon black
6.58:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #bf8889 as the text (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #bb8183 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

#bb8183 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bb8183
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 #bb8183 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bb8183-c49f9c-62cb95-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md