Color

#bb9ba7

#bb9ba7
hex#bb9ba7
rgbrgb(187, 155, 167)
hslhsl(338, 19%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.722 0.041 353.7)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.368

Colors that go with #bb9ba7

Charcoal, Dark Sea Green 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 #bb9ba7

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9bbbaf

#bb9bb7 · #bb9f9b

#a7bb9b · #9ba7bb

Split-complementary

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#9bbb9f · #9bb7bb

#b7bb9b · #9bbbaf · #9f9bbb

Contrast

#bb9ba7 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.51:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #986779 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #734e5c as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.14:1)
Aaon black
8.36:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bb9ba7 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

#bb9ba7 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bb9ba7
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 #bb9ba7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bb9ba7-c49ca6-62cb72-2d201f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md