Color

#bec2ae

#bec2ae
hex#bec2ae
rgbrgb(190, 194, 174)
hslhsl(72, 14%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.805 0.028 116.2)
Closest name: Irish Moor (#b5c0b3)Relative luminance 0.5259

Colors that go with #bec2ae

Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 #bec2ae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b2aec2

#c2bcae · #b4c2ae

#aebec2 · #c2aebe

Split-complementary

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#aeb4c2 · #bcaec2

#aec2bc · #b2aec2 · #c2aeb4

Contrast

#bec2ae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.82:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #71775a as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #565a44 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.24:1)
Aaon black
11.52:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bec2ae 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

#bec2ae reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bec2ae
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 #bec2ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bec2ae-b5bea2-4e77df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md