Dusty Blue
Open in tool →Dusty blue and mist with a nude accent — the quiet wedding palette; nothing here competes with a photograph.
Color
#bbc7c9
#bbc7c9
hex
#bbc7c9rgb
rgb(187, 199, 201)hsl
hsl(189, 11%, 76%)oklch
oklch(0.821 0.013 208.8)Closest name: Explosive Grey (#c4c4c4)Relative luminance 0.5563
Colors that go with #bbc7c9
Charcoal, Copper and Crimson 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #bbc7c9 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #bbc7c9: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #bbc7c9 in 4 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Frost & Ember, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #bbc7c9: 7 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #bbc7c9: 4 real palettes, including Fitbit's brand system and Nikon's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped10 real palettes, including First Snow and Lavender Milk put Midnight Blue beside #bbc7c9, as the text colour against it.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln put Peru beside #bbc7c9, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #bbc7c9: 6 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Stone, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #bbc7c9
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bbc7c9 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.73:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.13:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #bbc7c9 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
#bbc7c9 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bbc7c9
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #bbc7c9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bbc7c9-a2b7be-df4e7e-1f252d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md