Color

#b1aba9

#b1aba9
hex#b1aba9
rgbrgb(177, 171, 169)
hslhsl(15, 5%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.746 0.007 39.4)
Closest name: Dove (#b3ada7)Relative luminance 0.4134

Colors that go with #b1aba9

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 #b1aba9

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a9afb1

#b1a9ab · #b1afa9

#a9b1ab · #aba9b1

Split-complementary

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#a9b1af · #a9abb1

#abb1a9 · #a9afb1 · #afa9b1

Contrast

#b1aba9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.27:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b726f as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #5e5755 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
9.27:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b1aba9 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

Fonts for this mood

#b1aba9 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b1aba9
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 #b1aba9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b1aba9-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md