Color

#bbae8b

#bbae8b
hex#bbae8b
rgbrgb(187, 174, 139)
hslhsl(44, 26%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.753 0.05 90.1)
Closest name: Sand (#c2b280)Relative luminance 0.427

Colors that go with #bbae8b

Charcoal, Lilac and Cadet 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.

Real palettes that use #bbae8b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#8b98bb

#bb968b · #b0bb8b

#8bbbae · #ae8bbb

Split-complementary

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#8bb0bb · #968bbb

#8bbb96 · #8b98bb · #bb8bb0

Contrast

#bbae8b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.2:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #84754d as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #605639 as the text (7.27:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
9.54:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bbae8b 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

#bbae8b reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bbae8b
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 #bbae8b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bbae8b-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md