Color

#b8bcae

#b8bcae
hex#b8bcae
rgbrgb(184, 188, 174)
hslhsl(77, 9%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.788 0.02 119.8)
Closest name: Irish Moor (#b5c0b3)Relative luminance 0.4921

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b2aebc

#bcb9ae · #b1bcae

#aeb8bc · #bcaeb8

Split-complementary

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#aeb1bc · #b9aebc

#aebcb9 · #b2aebc · #bcaeb1

Contrast

#b8bcae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.94:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #727864 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #55594a as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.01:1)
Aaon black
10.84:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b8bcae 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

#b8bcae reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b8bcae
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 #b8bcae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b8bcae-b3bea2-4e6bdf-232d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md