Color

#bb8189

#bb8189
hex#bb8189
rgbrgb(187, 129, 137)
hslhsl(352, 30%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.664 0.072 10.1)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.2807

Colors that go with #bb8189

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 #bb8189

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#81bbb3

#bb81a6 · #bb9681

#89bb81 · #8189bb

Split-complementary

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#81bb96 · #81a6bb

#a6bb81 · #81bbb3 · #9681bb

Contrast

#bb8189 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.17:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a9606a as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #81464e as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.58:1)
Aaon black
6.61:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #bf888f as the text (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #bb8189 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

#bb8189 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bb8189
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 #bb8189 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bb8189-c49c9d-62cb8a-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md