Color

#bec5b4

#bec5b4
hex#bec5b4
rgbrgb(190, 197, 180)
hslhsl(85, 13%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.813 0.025 125.3)
Closest name: Bok Choy (#bccab3)Relative luminance 0.5417

Colors that go with #bec5b4

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 #bec5b4

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bbb4c5

#c5c4b4 · #b6c5b4

#b4bec5 · #c5b4be

Split-complementary

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#b4b6c5 · #c4b4c5

#b4c5c4 · #bbb4c5 · #c5b4b6

Contrast

#bec5b4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.77:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6d795d as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #535c47 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4f4f4f (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #333333 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
11.83:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bec5b4 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

#bec5b4 reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bec5b4
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 #bec5b4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bec5b4-afbea2-4e58df-212d1f-f1f0e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md