Color

#bbb177

#bbb177
hex#bbb177
rgbrgb(187, 177, 119)
hslhsl(51, 33%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.755 0.078 99.6)
Closest name: Sand (#c2b280)Relative luminance 0.4334

Colors that go with #bbb177

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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#7781bb

#bb8f77 · #a3bb77

#77bbb1 · #b177bb

Split-complementary

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#77a3bb · #8f77bb

#77bb8f · #7781bb · #bb77a3

Contrast

#bbb177 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.17:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #817741 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5830 as the text (7.18:1)
  • 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 #bbb177 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

#bbb177 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bbb177
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 #bbb177 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bbb177-c4c29c-4eaadf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md