Color

#bbb281

#bbb281
hex#bbb281
rgbrgb(187, 178, 129)
hslhsl(51, 30%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.759 0.067 99)
Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.4399

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#818abb

#bb9581 · #a7bb81

#81bbb2 · #b281bb

Split-complementary

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#81a7bb · #9581bb

#81bb95 · #818abb · #bb81a7

Contrast

#bbb281 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.14:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e7544 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #605934 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
9.8:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bbb281 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

#bbb281 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bbb281
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 #bbb281 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bbb281-c4c29c-4eaadf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md