Color

#bd989f

#bd989f
hex#bd989f
rgbrgb(189, 152, 159)
hslhsl(349, 22%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.716 0.045 5.6)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3578

Colors that go with #bd989f

Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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 #bd989f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#98bdb7

#bd98b2 · #bda498

#9fbd98 · #989fbd

Split-complementary

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#98bda4 · #98b2bd

#b2bd98 · #98bdb7 · #a498bd

Contrast

#bd989f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.57:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9e6771 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #764c53 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.15:1)
Aaon black
8.16:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bd989f 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

#bd989f reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bd989f
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 #bd989f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bd989f-c49c9f-62cb85-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md