Color

#bbab77

#bbab77
hex#bbab77
rgbrgb(187, 171, 119)
hslhsl(46, 33%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.742 0.072 93)
Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.4102

Colors that go with #bbab77

Charcoal, Lilac and Blush Pink 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 #bbab77

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7787bb

#bb8977 · #a9bb77

#77bbab · #ab77bb

Split-complementary

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#77a9bb · #8977bb

#77bb89 · #7787bb · #bb77a9

Contrast

#bbab77 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.28:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #847543 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #625732 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
9.2:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bbab77 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

#bbab77 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bbab77
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 #bbab77 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bbab77-c4bf9c-62adcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md