Color

#b8b2bd

#b8b2bd
hex#b8b2bd
rgbrgb(184, 178, 189)
hslhsl(273, 8%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.772 0.017 310.1)
Closest name: Nebulous December (#b3b2bf)Relative luminance 0.4571

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b7bdb2

#b2b2bd · #bdb2bd

#bdb8b2 · #b2bdb8

Split-complementary

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#bdbdb2 · #b2bdb2

#bdb2b2 · #b7bdb2 · #b2bdbd

Contrast

#b8b2bd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.07:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b7184 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #5d5463 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
10.14:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b8b2bd 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

#b8b2bd reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b8b2bd
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #b8b2bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b8b2bd-b79cc4-c4cb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md