Color

#b5abb2

#b5abb2
hex#b5abb2
rgbrgb(181, 171, 178)
hslhsl(318, 6%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.752 0.015 336.2)
Closest name: Foggy Plum (#b7a5ad)Relative luminance 0.4216

Colors that go with #b5abb2

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 #b5abb2

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#abb5ae

#b3abb5 · #b5abad

#b2b5ab · #abb2b5

Split-complementary

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#adb5ab · #abb5b3

#b5b3ab · #abb5ae · #abadb5

Contrast

#b5abb2 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.23:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f717b as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #5f545b as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.23:1)
Aaon black
9.43:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b5abb2 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

#b5abb2 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b5abb2
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 #b5abb2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b5abb2-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md