Color

#b6ae96

#b6ae96
hex#b6ae96
rgbrgb(182, 174, 150)
hslhsl(45, 18%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.751 0.035 91.7)
Closest name: Gargoyle (#abb39e)Relative luminance 0.4242

Colors that go with #b6ae96

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 #b6ae96

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#969eb6

#b69e96 · #aeb696

#96b6ae · #ae96b6

Split-complementary

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#96aeb6 · #9e96b6

#96b69e · #969eb6 · #b696ae

Contrast

#b6ae96 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.21:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e7558 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #5d5641 as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
9.48:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b6ae96 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

#b6ae96 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b6ae96
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 #b6ae96 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b6ae96-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md