Color

#b9bea7

#b9bea7
hex#b9bea7
rgbrgb(185, 190, 167)
hslhsl(73, 15%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.791 0.032 117.1)
Closest name: Ash (#bebaa7)Relative luminance 0.4993

Colors that go with #b9bea7

Charcoal, Lilac and Champagne lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use #b9bea7

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aca7be

#beb7a7 · #aebea7

#a7b9be · #bea7b9

Split-complementary

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#a7aebe · #b7a7be

#a7beb7 · #aca7be · #bea7ae

Contrast

#b9bea7 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.91:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #717859 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #565b43 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.1:1)
Aaon black
10.99:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b9bea7 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

#b9bea7 reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b9bea7
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

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

analyze #b9bea7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b9bea7-b5bea2-4e75df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md