Color

#bcb2ae

#bcb2ae
hex#bcb2ae
rgbrgb(188, 178, 174)
hslhsl(17, 9%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.771 0.013 43.2)
Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.4559

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aeb8bc

#bcaeb1 · #bcb9ae

#aebcb2 · #b2aebc

Split-complementary

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#aebcb9 · #aeb1bc

#b1bcae · #aeb8bc · #b9aebc

Contrast

#bcb2ae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.08:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #83736d as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #615651 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
10.12:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bcb2ae 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

#bcb2ae reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bcb2ae
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 #bcb2ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bcb2ae-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md