Color

#bcb494

#bcb494
hex#bcb494
rgbrgb(188, 180, 148)
hslhsl(48, 23%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.768 0.045 95.6)
Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.4547

Colors that go with #bcb494

Charcoal, Lilac and Champagne 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 #bcb494

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#949cbc

#bca094 · #b0bc94

#94bcb4 · #b494bc

Split-complementary

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#94b0bc · #a094bc

#94bca0 · #949cbc · #bc94b0

Contrast

#bcb494 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.08:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d744f as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #5e573b as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.27:1)
Aaon black
10.09:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bcb494 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

#bcb494 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bcb494
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 #bcb494 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bcb494-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md