Color

#bbb590

#bbb590
hex#bbb590
rgbrgb(187, 181, 144)
hslhsl(52, 24%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.768 0.051 99.8)
Closest name: Sand (#c2b280)Relative luminance 0.4563

Colors that go with #bbb590

Charcoal, Lilac and Cadet Blue 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 #bbb590

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9096bb

#bba090 · #abbb90

#90bbb5 · #b590bb

Split-complementary

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#90abbb · #a090bb

#90bba0 · #9096bb · #bb90ab

Contrast

#bbb590 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.07:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b754c as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #5c5738 as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
10.13:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bbb590 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

#bbb590 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bbb590
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 #bbb590 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bbb590-c4c39c-4ea7df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md