Color

#bc9497

#bc9497
hex#bc9497
rgbrgb(188, 148, 151)
hslhsl(356, 23%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.705 0.048 13.3)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.3411

Colors that go with #bc9497

Charcoal, Cadet Blue 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 #bc9497

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#94bcba

#bc94ab · #bca694

#97bc94 · #9497bc

Split-complementary

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#94bca6 · #94abbc

#abbc94 · #94bcba · #a694bc

Contrast

#bc9497 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.69:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9f6569 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #774b4e as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.14:1)
Aaon black
7.82:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bc9497 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

#bc9497 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bc9497
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 #bc9497 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bc9497-c49e9c-62cb91-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md