Color

#bb9ba0

#bb9ba0
hex#bb9ba0
rgbrgb(187, 155, 160)
hslhsl(351, 19%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.72 0.039 7.5)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3655

Colors that go with #bb9ba0

Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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 #bb9ba0

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9bbbb6

#bb9bb0 · #bba69b

#a0bb9b · #9ba0bb

Split-complementary

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#9bbba6 · #9bb0bb

#b0bb9b · #9bbbb6 · #a69bbb

Contrast

#bb9ba0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.53:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #98676f as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #734e54 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.09:1)
Aaon black
8.31:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bb9ba0 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

#bb9ba0 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bb9ba0
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 #bb9ba0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bb9ba0-c49c9e-62cb89-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md