Color

#bd8485

#bd8485
hex#bd8485
rgbrgb(189, 132, 133)
hslhsl(359, 30%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.67 0.071 17.9)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.2901

Colors that go with #bd8485

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Blush Pink 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 #bd8485

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#84bdbc

#bd84a2 · #bda084

#85bd84 · #8485bd

Split-complementary

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#84bda0 · #84a2bd

#a2bd84 · #84bdbc · #a084bd

Contrast

#bd8485 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.09:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a96061 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #854748 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.59:1)
Aaon black
6.8:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #bf8889 as the text (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #bd8485 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

#bd8485 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bd8485
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 #bd8485 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bd8485-c4a09c-62cb96-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md