Color
#bba8bd
#bba8bdrgb(187, 168, 189)hsl(294, 14%, 70%)oklch(0.754 0.036 323)Colors that go with #bba8bd
Charcoal, Emerald Green and Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #bba8bd: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Emerald Green #50c878
complementaryshippedEmerald Green sits directly opposite #bba8bd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #bba8bd, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #bba8bd: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Riverbed, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #bba8bd: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #bba8bd in 4 real palettes, including Canopy and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #bba8bd, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #bba8bd: 9 real palettes, including Crypto.com's brand system and Stone, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #bba8bd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bba8bd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.22:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.45:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #bba8bd 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
#bba8bd reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #bba8bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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