Color

#bd957a

#bd957a
hex#bd957a
rgbrgb(189, 149, 122)
hslhsl(24, 34%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.7 0.061 55.5)
Closest name: Beauty and the Beach (#c99680)Relative luminance 0.3372

Colors that go with #bd957a

Cadet Blue, Charcoal 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 #bd957a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7aa2bd

#bd7a80 · #bdb77a

#7abd95 · #957abd

Split-complementary

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#7abdb7 · #7a80bd

#80bd7a · #7aa2bd · #b77abd

Contrast

#bd957a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.71:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9a6b4c as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #745139 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.74:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bd957a 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

#bd957a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bd957a
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 #bd957a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bd957a-c4b19c-62cbc2-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md