Midnight Luxe
Open in tool →Champagne gold on ink-navy with a violet undertone — hotels and spirits use it because it reads expensive at any size.
Color
#b6bbd3
#b6bbd3
hex
#b6bbd3rgb
rgb(182, 187, 211)hsl
hsl(230, 25%, 77%)oklch
oklch(0.796 0.034 276.3)Closest name: Arctic Ice (#b6bdd0)Relative luminance 0.5019
Colors that go with #b6bbd3
Charcoal, Sand 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 for #b6bbd3: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sand #c2b280
complementaryshippedSand sits directly opposite #b6bbd3 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #b6bbd3 in 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #b6bbd3 in 5 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #b6bbd3 in 6 real palettes, including Open House and Nikon's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #b6bbd3 in 9 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Telehealth, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #b6bbd3 in 4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Stone, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #b6bbd3 in 11 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Dusty Blue, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #b6bbd3
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b6bbd3 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.9:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.04:1 | 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 #b6bbd3 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#b6bbd3 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b6bbd3
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 #b6bbd3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b6bbd3-9c9ec4-df814e-231f2d-e9eef1?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