Color

#bcb4ae

#bcb4ae
hex#bcb4ae
rgbrgb(188, 180, 174)
hslhsl(26, 9%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.775 0.012 59.5)
Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.4639

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aeb6bc

#bcaeaf · #bcbbae

#aebcb4 · #b4aebc

Split-complementary

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#aebcbb · #aeafbc

#afbcae · #aeb6bc · #bbaebc

Contrast

#bcb4ae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.04:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #80746b as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #5f564f as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
10.28:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bcb4ae 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

#bcb4ae reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bcb4ae
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 #bcb4ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bcb4ae-c4b29c-62cbc5-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md