Color

#bc949f

#bc949f
hex#bc949f
rgbrgb(188, 148, 159)
hslhsl(344, 23%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.707 0.05 0.2)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3437

Colors that go with #bc949f

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 #bc949f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#94bcb2

#bc94b3 · #bc9e94

#9fbc94 · #949fbc

Split-complementary

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#94bc9e · #94b3bc

#b3bc94 · #94bcb2 · #9e94bc

Contrast

#bc949f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.67:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9f6575 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #774b56 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.87:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bc949f 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

#bc949f reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bc949f
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 #bc949f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bc949f-c49ca2-62cb7c-2d221f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md