Greige
Open in tool →Grey-beige with a hint of olive — the interior-design neutral; the olive accent is the only thing that isn't a shade of nothing.
Color
#bbae9b
#bbae9b
hex
#bbae9brgb
rgb(187, 174, 155)hsl
hsl(36, 19%, 67%)oklch
oklch(0.757 0.03 77.5)Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.432
Colors that go with #bbae9b
Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 body-text near-black for #bbae9b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #bbae9b, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #bbae9b: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #bbae9b in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #bbae9b in 5 real palettes, including Bramble and Sepia Mono, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #bbae9b in 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Pine & Birch, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #bbae9b, as the accent.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
split-complementshippedSky Blue is a split-complement of #bbae9b: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #bbae9b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bbae9b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.18:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.64:1 | 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 #bbae9b as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#bbae9b reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bbae9b
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #bbae9b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bbae9b-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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