Color

#bcb1ae

#bcb1ae
hex#bcb1ae
rgbrgb(188, 177, 174)
hslhsl(13, 9%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.769 0.013 35.7)
Closest name: Dove (#b3ada7)Relative luminance 0.4519

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aeb9bc

#bcaeb2 · #bcb8ae

#aebcb1 · #b1aebc

Split-complementary

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#aebcb8 · #aeb2bc

#b2bcae · #aeb9bc · #b8aebc

Contrast

#bcb1ae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.09:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #83726d as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #615551 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.23:1)
Aaon black
10.04:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bcb1ae 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

#bcb1ae reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bcb1ae
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 #bcb1ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bcb1ae-c4a99c-62cbaf-2d281f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md