Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Color
#b2b7a9
#b2b7a9
hex
#b2b7a9rgb
rgb(178, 183, 169)hsl
hsl(81, 9%, 69%)oklch
oklch(0.771 0.02 122.9)Closest name: Alpine Air (#a9b4a9)Relative luminance 0.462
Colors that go with #b2b7a9
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #b2b7a9 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Bramble put Champagne beside #b2b7a9, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #b2b7a9: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #b2b7a9 in 4 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #b2b7a9 in 4 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Oatmeal, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #b2b7a9: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Guinness's brand system, as the lead colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #b2b7a9 in 4 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Bramble, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #b2b7a9 in 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Pine & Birch, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #b2b7a9
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b2b7a9 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.05:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.24:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #b2b7a9 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
#b2b7a9 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b2b7a9
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #b2b7a9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b2b7a9-b1bea2-4e62df-222d1f-f1f0e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md