Color

#bba5aa

#bba5aa
hex#bba5aa
rgbrgb(187, 165, 170)
hslhsl(346, 14%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.742 0.027 2.3)
Closest name: Foggy Plum (#b7a5ad)Relative luminance 0.4038

Colors that go with #bba5aa

Charcoal, Champagne 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 #bba5aa

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a5bbb6

#bba5b5 · #bbaba5

#aabba5 · #a5aabb

Split-complementary

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#a5bbab · #a5b5bb

#b5bba5 · #a5bbb6 · #aba5bb

Contrast

#bba5aa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.31:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8e6b74 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #6c5157 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.12:1)
Aaon black
9.08:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bba5aa 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

#bba5aa reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bba5aa
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 #bba5aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bba5aa-c49ca1-62cb80-2d221f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md