Color

#b1aaaf

#b1aaaf
hex#b1aaaf
rgbrgb(177, 170, 175)
hslhsl(317, 4%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.745 0.011 335.5)
Closest name: Cathedral (#acaaa7)Relative luminance 0.4119

Colors that go with #b1aaaf

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 #b1aaaf

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aab1ac

#afaab1 · #b1aaac

#afb1aa · #aaafb1

Split-complementary

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#acb1aa · #aab1af

#b1afaa · #aab1ac · #aaacb1

Contrast

#b1aaaf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.27:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d737a as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #5d565b as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
9.24:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b1aaaf 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

#b1aaaf reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b1aaaf
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 #b1aaaf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b1aaaf-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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