Color

#bcb7ae

#bcb7ae
hex#bcb7ae
rgbrgb(188, 183, 174)
hslhsl(39, 9%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.781 0.014 82.4)
Closest name: Ash (#bebaa7)Relative luminance 0.4761

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aeb3bc

#bcb0ae · #babcae

#aebcb7 · #b7aebc

Split-complementary

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#aebabc · #b0aebc

#aebcb0 · #aeb3bc · #bcaeba

Contrast

#bcb7ae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d7668 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #5c564d as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.09:1)
Aaon black
10.52:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bcb7ae 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

#bcb7ae reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bcb7ae
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 #bcb7ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bcb7ae-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md