Color

#bb8381

#bb8381
hex#bb8381
rgbrgb(187, 131, 129)
hslhsl(2, 30%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.665 0.07 21.4)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.2838

Colors that go with #bb8381

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Blush Pink 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 #bb8381

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#81b9bb

#bb819c · #bba081

#81bb83 · #8381bb

Split-complementary

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#81bba0 · #819cbb

#9cbb81 · #81b9bb · #a081bb

Contrast

#bb8381 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.15:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a96260 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #814846 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.5:1)
Aaon black
6.68:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #bf8988 as the text (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #bb8381 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

#bb8381 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bb8381
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 #bb8381 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bb8381-c4a29c-62cb9c-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md