Color

#b1bdbe

#b1bdbe
hex#b1bdbe
rgbrgb(177, 189, 190)
hslhsl(185, 9%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.789 0.013 202.9)
Closest name: Dust to Dust (#bbbcbc)Relative luminance 0.4946

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#beb2b1

#b1beb9 · #b1b7be

#beb1bd · #bdbeb1

Split-complementary

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#beb1b7 · #beb9b1

#b9b1be · #beb2b1 · #b7beb1

Contrast

#b1bdbe as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.93:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #66797a as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #4d5a5c as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.04:1)
Aaon black
10.89:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b1bdbe 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

#b1bdbe reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b1bdbe
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 #b1bdbe and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b1bdbe-a2b8be-df4e88-1f262d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md