Color

#b9bcae

#b9bcae
hex#b9bcae
rgbrgb(185, 188, 174)
hslhsl(73, 9%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.789 0.02 116.7)
Closest name: Ash (#bebaa7)Relative luminance 0.4934

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b1aebc

#bcb8ae · #b2bcae

#aeb9bc · #bcaeb9

Split-complementary

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#aeb2bc · #b8aebc

#aebcb8 · #b1aebc · #bcaeb2

Contrast

#b9bcae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.93:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #737864 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #56594a as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.03:1)
Aaon black
10.87:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b9bcae 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

#b9bcae reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b9bcae
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 #b9bcae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b9bcae-b5bea2-4e75df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md