Color

#bbb496

#bbb496
hex#bbb496
rgbrgb(187, 180, 150)
hslhsl(49, 21%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.768 0.042 96.3)
Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.4541

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#969dbb

#bba296 · #afbb96

#96bbb4 · #b496bb

Split-complementary

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#96afbb · #a296bb

#96bba2 · #969dbb · #bb96af

Contrast

#bbb496 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.08:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f7653 as the text (4.55:1)
  • 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 (7.27:1)
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 #bbb496 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

#bbb496 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bbb496
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 #bbb496 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bbb496-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md