Color

#bbae96

#bbae96
hex#bbae96
rgbrgb(187, 174, 150)
hslhsl(39, 21%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.755 0.036 82.9)
Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.4304

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#96a3bb

#bb9c96 · #b5bb96

#96bbae · #ae96bb

Split-complementary

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#96b5bb · #9c96bb

#96bb9c · #96a3bb · #bb96b5

Contrast

#bbae96 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.19:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #827255 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #635740 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
9.61:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bbae96 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

#bbae96 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bbae96
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #bbae96 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bbae96-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md