Color

#bcbdb3

#bcbdb3
hex#bcbdb3
rgbrgb(188, 189, 179)
hslhsl(66, 7%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.795 0.014 111.3)
Closest name: Irish Moor (#b5c0b3)Relative luminance 0.5034

Colors that go with #bcbdb3

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 #bcbdb3

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b4b3bd

#bdb9b3 · #b7bdb3

#b3bcbd · #bdb3bc

Split-complementary

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#b3b7bd · #b9b3bd

#b3bdb9 · #b4b3bd · #bdb3b7

Contrast

#bcbdb3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.9:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #767868 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #595a4e as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.16:1)
Aaon black
11.07:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bcbdb3 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

#bcbdb3 reads as neutral, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bcbdb3
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 #bcbdb3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bcbdb3-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md