Color

#b9b1be

#b9b1be
hex#b9b1be
rgbrgb(185, 177, 190)
hslhsl(277, 9%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.771 0.02 312.8)
Closest name: Nebulous December (#b3b2bf)Relative luminance 0.4548

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b6beb1

#b3b1be · #beb1bd

#beb9b1 · #b1beb9

Split-complementary

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#bdbeb1 · #b1beb3

#beb3b1 · #b6beb1 · #b1bdbe

Contrast

#b9b1be as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.08:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d6f85 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #5e5464 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.28:1)
Aaon black
10.1:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b9b1be 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

#b9b1be reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b9b1be
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 #b9b1be and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b9b1be-b99cc4-bdcb62-2d1f2c-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md