Color

#b2adb8

#b2adb8
hex#b2adb8
rgbrgb(178, 173, 184)
hslhsl(267, 7%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.755 0.016 306.3)
Closest name: Nebulous December (#b3b2bf)Relative luminance 0.4281

Colors that go with #b2adb8

Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b3b8ad

#adaeb8 · #b7adb8

#b8b2ad · #adb8b2

Split-complementary

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#b8b7ad · #aeb8ad

#b8adae · #b3b8ad · #adb8b7

Contrast

#b2adb8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.2:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a7283 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #5b5562 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
9.56:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b2adb8 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

#b2adb8 reads as neutral, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b2adb8
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 #b2adb8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b2adb8-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md