Color

#bb8886

#bb8886
hex#bb8886
rgbrgb(187, 136, 134)
hslhsl(2, 28%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.676 0.063 21.4)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.2989

Colors that go with #bb8886

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 #bb8886

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#86b9bb

#bb869f · #bba286

#86bb88 · #8886bb

Split-complementary

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#86bba2 · #869fbb

#9fbb86 · #86b9bb · #a286bb

Contrast

#bb8886 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.01:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a5615f as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #7f4948 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.51:1)
Aaon black
6.98:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #bd8b89 as the text (7.22:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #bb8886 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

#bb8886 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bb8886
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 #bb8886 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bb8886-c4a29c-62cb9c-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md