Color

#bbc9c9

#bbc9c9
hex#bbc9c9
rgbrgb(187, 201, 201)
hslhsl(180, 11%, 76%)
oklchoklch(0.825 0.015 196.9)
Closest name: Explosive Grey (#c4c4c4)Relative luminance 0.5656

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#c9bbbb

#bbc9c2 · #bbc2c9

#c9bbc9 · #c9c9bb

Split-complementary

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#c9bbc2 · #c9c2bb

#c2bbc9 · #c9bbbb · #c2c9bb

Contrast

#bbc9c9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.71:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #627a7a as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #495b5b as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #525252 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #363636 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
12.31:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bbc9c9 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

#bbc9c9 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bbc9c9
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 #bbc9c9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bbc9c9-a2bbbe-d45994-1f272d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md