Color

#b9adbd

#b9adbd
hex#b9adbd
rgbrgb(185, 173, 189)
hslhsl(285, 11%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.763 0.026 317.7)
Closest name: Nebulous December (#b3b2bf)Relative luminance 0.4388

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b1bdad

#b1adbd · #bdadb9

#bdb9ad · #adbdb9

Split-complementary

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#b9bdad · #adbdb1

#bdb1ad · #b1bdad · #adb9bd

Contrast

#b9adbd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.15:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #846f8b as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #615266 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
9.78:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b9adbd as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#b9adbd reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b9adbd
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 #b9adbd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b9adbd-bc9fc1-afcb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md