Color

#bab99c

#bab99c
hex#bab99c
rgbrgb(186, 185, 156)
hslhsl(58, 18%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.779 0.04 105.7)
Closest name: Ash (#bebaa7)Relative luminance 0.4754

Colors that go with #bab99c

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 #bab99c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9c9dba

#baaa9c · #acba9c

#9cbab9 · #b99cba

Split-complementary

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#9cacba · #aa9cba

#9cbaaa · #9c9dba · #ba9cac

Contrast

#bab99c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #787754 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #5a593f as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.08:1)
Aaon black
10.51:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bab99c 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

#bab99c reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bab99c
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 #bab99c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bab99c-bcbea2-4e99df-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md