Color

#bbc1ae

#bbc1ae
hex#bbc1ae
rgbrgb(187, 193, 174)
hslhsl(79, 13%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.801 0.027 121.3)
Closest name: Irish Moor (#b5c0b3)Relative luminance 0.5176

Colors that go with #bbc1ae

Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 #bbc1ae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b4aec1

#c1bdae · #b2c1ae

#aebbc1 · #c1aebb

Split-complementary

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#aeb2c1 · #bdaec1

#aec1bd · #b4aec1 · #c1aeb2

Contrast

#bbc1ae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.85:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #70795d as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #535945 as the text (7.28:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.13:1)
Aaon black
11.35:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bbc1ae 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

#bbc1ae reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bbc1ae
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 #bbc1ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bbc1ae-b2bea2-4e66df-232d1f-f1f0e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md