Color

#bbb086

#bbb086
hex#bbb086
rgbrgb(187, 176, 134)
hslhsl(48, 28%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.756 0.058 95.2)
Closest name: Sand (#c2b280)Relative luminance 0.4334

Colors that go with #bbb086

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8691bb

#bb9686 · #abbb86

#86bbb1 · #b186bb

Split-complementary

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#86abbb · #9686bb

#86bb96 · #8691bb · #bb86ab

Contrast

#bbb086 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.17:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f7448 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5635 as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.15:1)
Aaon black
9.67:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bbb086 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

#bbb086 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bbb086
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 #bbb086 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bbb086-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md