Color

#bec9cb

#bec9cb
hex#bec9cb
rgbrgb(190, 201, 203)
hslhsl(189, 11%, 77%)
oklchoklch(0.828 0.012 209.8)
Closest name: Herring Silver (#c6c8cf)Relative luminance 0.5703

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cbc0be

#becbc6 · #bec2cb

#cbbec9 · #c9cbbe

Split-complementary

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#cbbec2 · #cbc6be

#c6becb · #cbc0be · #c2cbbe

Contrast

#bec9cb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.69:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #64797d as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #4b5b5d as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #525252 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #363636 (7.14:1)
Aaon black
12.41:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bec9cb 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

#bec9cb reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bec9cb
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 #bec9cb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bec9cb-a2b7be-df4e7e-1f252d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md