Color

#bbb296

#bbb296
hex#bbb296
rgbrgb(187, 178, 150)
hslhsl(45, 21%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.764 0.04 92.3)
Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.4461

Colors that go with #bbb296

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.

Real palettes that use #bbb296

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#969fbb

#bb9f96 · #b1bb96

#96bbb1 · #b196bb

Split-complementary

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#96b1bb · #9f96bb

#96bb9f · #969fbb · #bb96b1

Contrast

#bbb296 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.12:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f7453 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #60573e as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.15:1)
Aaon black
9.92:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bbb296 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

#bbb296 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bbb296
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 #bbb296 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bbb296-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md