Color

#bd8494

#bd8494
hex#bd8494
rgbrgb(189, 132, 148)
hslhsl(343, 30%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.675 0.073 0.8)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.2946

Colors that go with #bd8494

Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Burlywood 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 #bd8494

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#84bdad

#bd84b1 · #bd9184

#94bd84 · #8494bd

Split-complementary

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#84bd91 · #84b1bd

#b1bd84 · #84bdad · #9184bd

Contrast

#bd8494 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.05:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a96075 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #814657 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.65:1)
Aaon black
6.89:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #bf8897 as the text (7.18:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #bd8494 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

#bd8494 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bd8494
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 #bd8494 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bd8494-c49ca3-62cb7b-2d211f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md