Color

#b1aaab

#b1aaab
hex#b1aaab
rgbrgb(177, 170, 171)
hslhsl(351, 4%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.744 0.008 7.4)
Closest name: Cathedral (#acaaa7)Relative luminance 0.4104

Colors that go with #b1aaab

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 #b1aaab

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aab1b0

#b1aaae · #b1acaa

#abb1aa · #aaabb1

Split-complementary

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#aab1ac · #aaaeb1

#aeb1aa · #aab1b0 · #acaab1

Contrast

#b1aaab as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.28:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d7374 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #5d5657 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
9.21:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b1aaab 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

#b1aaab reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b1aaab
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 #b1aaab and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b1aaab-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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