Color

#bab09c

#bab09c
hex#bab09c
rgbrgb(186, 176, 156)
hslhsl(40, 18%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.76 0.03 84.6)
Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.4389

Colors that go with #bab09c

Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 #bab09c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9ca6ba

#baa19c · #b5ba9c

#9cbab0 · #b09cba

Split-complementary

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#9cb5ba · #a19cba

#9cbaa1 · #9ca6ba · #ba9cb5

Contrast

#bab09c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.15:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #81745a as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #605643 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.05:1)
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 #bab09c 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

#bab09c reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bab09c
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 #bab09c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bab09c-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md