Color

#bbb396

#bbb396
hex#bbb396
rgbrgb(187, 179, 150)
hslhsl(47, 21%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.766 0.041 94.4)
Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.4501

Colors that go with #bbb396

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 #bbb396

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#969ebb

#bba096 · #b0bb96

#96bbb3 · #b396bb

Split-complementary

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#96b0bb · #a096bb

#96bba0 · #969ebb · #bb96b0

Contrast

#bbb396 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.1:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f7553 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #60583e as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.21:1)
Aaon black
10:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bbb396 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

#bbb396 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bbb396
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 #bbb396 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bbb396-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md