Greige
Open in tool →Grey-beige with a hint of olive — the interior-design neutral; the olive accent is the only thing that isn't a shade of nothing.
Color
#b7ae95
#b7ae95
hex
#b7ae95rgb
rgb(183, 174, 149)hsl
hsl(44, 19%, 65%)oklch
oklch(0.752 0.036 90.6)Closest name: Gargoyle (#abb39e)Relative luminance 0.4251
Colors that go with #b7ae95
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 body-text near-black for #b7ae95: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and Darkroom put Champagne beside #b7ae95, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #b7ae95: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #b7ae95 in 4 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Oatmeal, as the lead colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #b7ae95 in 5 real palettes, including Bramble and Sepia Mono, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #b7ae95 in 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Pine & Birch, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #b7ae95, as the accent.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
split-complementshippedSky Blue is a split-complement of #b7ae95: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #b7ae95
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b7ae95 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.21:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.5:1 | 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 #b7ae95 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
#b7ae95 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b7ae95
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 #b7ae95 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b7ae95-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?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