Color

#bbb49b

#bbb49b
hex#bbb49b
rgbrgb(187, 180, 155)
hslhsl(47, 19%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.769 0.035 94.1)
Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.4557

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9ba2bb

#bba49b · #b2bb9b

#9bbbb4 · #b49bbb

Split-complementary

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#9bb2bb · #a49bbb

#9bbba4 · #9ba2bb · #bb9bb2

Contrast

#bbb49b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.08:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c7455 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #5e5840 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
10.11:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bbb49b as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#bbb49b reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bbb49b
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 #bbb49b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bbb49b-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md