Color

#bc998a

#bc998a
hex#bc998a
rgbrgb(188, 153, 138)
hslhsl(18, 27%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.711 0.047 44.4)
Closest name: Coca Mocha (#bd9d95)Relative luminance 0.3531

Colors that go with #bc998a

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 #bc998a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#8aadbc

#bc8a94 · #bcb28a

#8abc99 · #998abc

Split-complementary

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#8abcb2 · #8a94bc

#94bc8a · #8aadbc · #b28abc

Contrast

#bc998a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.6:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #986b57 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #715041 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
8.06:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bc998a 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

#bc998a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bc998a
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 #bc998a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bc998a-c4ad9c-62cbb8-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md