Named color

Ashes to Ashes

#bbb3a2

hex#bbb3a2

rgbrgb(187, 179, 162)

hslhsl(41, 16%, 68%)

oklchoklch(0.769 0.025 85.8)

Relative luminance 0.4541

Warm Muted Editorial Elegant

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Ashes To Ashes on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.

Tints & shades

Tints — toward white

c1b9a9 c7c1b2 cec8bb d4cfc4 dbd6cd e1ddd6 e7e5de eeece7 f4f3f0 fbfaf9

Shades — toward black

aea48f 9f937a 918469 7c715a 6a614d 595140 443e31 322e24 1e1b15 0c0b09

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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bbb3a2 a0a9ba

#a0a9ba

Analogous

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bbb3a2 baa5a0 b6baa0

#baa5a0 · #b6baa0

Triadic

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bbb3a2 a0bab2 b2a0ba

#a0bab2 · #b2a0ba

Split-complementary

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bbb3a2 a0b6ba a5a0ba

#a0b6ba · #a5a0ba

Tetradic

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bbb3a2 a0baa5 a0a9ba baa0b6

#a0baa5 · #a0a9ba · #baa0b6

Contrast

Ashes to Ashes as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.08:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #7f745c as the text (4.61:1) AAA: use #5f5645 as the text (7.23:1) AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.6:1) AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.27:1)
Aaon black	10.08:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes 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 Ashes to Ashes as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

7f8f70 bdb5a6 b5654d f8f6f2 2e2e2a

Clean Beauty

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Sage and clay on unbleached white — the nothing-to-hide palette for ingredient-led skincare.

Minimal Muted CleanBeauty

Fonts for this mood

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

Warm fonts →Editorial fonts →Elegant fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around Ashes to Ashes

live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp

claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp

try this prompt

›analyze #bbb3a2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bbb3a2-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md