Color

#bb9bb0

#bb9bb0
hex#bb9bb0
rgbrgb(187, 155, 176)
hslhsl(321, 19%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.725 0.047 339)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3714

Colors that go with #bb9bb0

Charcoal, Dark Sea Green and Copper 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 #bb9bb0

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9bbba6

#b69bbb · #bb9ba0

#b0bb9b · #9bb0bb

Split-complementary

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#a0bb9b · #9bbbb6

#bbb69b · #9bbba6 · #9ba0bb

Contrast

#bb9bb0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.49:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #986787 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #704c64 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.71:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.2:1)
Aaon black
8.43:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bb9bb0 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

#bb9bb0 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bb9bb0
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 #bb9bb0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bb9bb0-c19fb1-70cb62-2d1f22-f0e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md