Color

#bbb495

#bbb495
hex#bbb495
rgbrgb(187, 180, 149)
hslhsl(49, 22%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.768 0.043 96.7)
Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.4538

Colors that go with #bbb495

Charcoal, Lilac and Champagne 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 #bbb495

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#959cbb

#bba195 · #afbb95

#95bbb4 · #b495bb

Split-complementary

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#95afbb · #a195bb

#95bba1 · #959cbb · #bb95af

Contrast

#bbb495 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.08:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c7450 as the text (4.7:1)
  • AAA: use #5d573c as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.26:1)
Aaon black
10.08:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bbb495 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

#bbb495 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bbb495
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 #bbb495 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bbb495-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md