Color

#b0bca9

#b0bca9
hex#b0bca9
rgbrgb(176, 188, 169)
hslhsl(98, 12%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.781 0.03 133.8)
Closest name: Irish Moor (#b5c0b3)Relative luminance 0.4806

Colors that go with #b0bca9

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 #b0bca9

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b5a9bc

#b9bca9 · #a9bcac

#a9b0bc · #bca9b0

Split-complementary

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#aca9bc · #bca9b9

#a9b9bc · #b5a9bc · #bcaca9

Contrast

#b0bca9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.98:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6a7b60 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #4f5b48 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.16:1)
Aaon black
10.61:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b0bca9 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

#b0bca9 reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b0bca9
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 #b0bca9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b0bca9-a9bea2-644edf-1f2d20-f0f1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md