Color

#bd816b

#bd816b
hex#bd816b
rgbrgb(189, 129, 107)
hslhsl(16, 38%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.659 0.081 40.9)
Closest name: Bite My Tongue (#d47d72)Relative luminance 0.2758

Colors that go with #bd816b

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Blue 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 #bd816b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6ba7bd

#bd6b7e · #bdaa6b

#6bbd81 · #816bbd

Split-complementary

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#6bbdaa · #6b7ebd

#7ebd6b · #6ba7bd · #aa6bbd

Contrast

#bd816b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.22:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a9654c as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #7f4c39 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.51:1)
Aaon black
6.52:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #c18a76 as the text (7.16:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #bd816b 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

#bd816b reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bd816b
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 #bd816b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bd816b-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md