Color

#bbb9aa

#bbb9aa
hex#bbb9aa
rgbrgb(187, 185, 170)
hslhsl(53, 11%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.783 0.021 100.7)
Closest name: Ash (#bebaa7)Relative luminance 0.4816

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aaacbb

#bbb1aa · #b4bbaa

#aabbb9 · #b9aabb

Split-complementary

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#aab4bb · #b1aabb

#aabbb1 · #aaacbb · #bbaab4

Contrast

#bbb9aa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.97:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a7762 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #5b5849 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.17:1)
Aaon black
10.63:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bbb9aa 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

#bbb9aa reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bbb9aa
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 #bbb9aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bbb9aa-c4c49c-4ea5df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md