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
#b8aaa3
#b8aaa3
hex
#b8aaa3rgb
rgb(184, 170, 163)hsl
hsl(20, 13%, 68%)oklch
oklch(0.748 0.019 48.5)Closest name: Dove (#b3ada7)Relative luminance 0.4158
Colors that go with #b8aaa3
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 #b8aaa3 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Bramble and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #b8aaa3, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #b8aaa3: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Riverbed, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #b8aaa3 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 #b8aaa3 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #b8aaa3: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Guinness's brand system, as the lead colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #b8aaa3 in 5 real palettes, including Bramble and Sepia Mono, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #b8aaa3 in 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Canopy, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #b8aaa3
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b8aaa3 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.25:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.32:1 | 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 #b8aaa3 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
#b8aaa3 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b8aaa3
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 #b8aaa3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b8aaa3-c4ae9c-62cbbb-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?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