Color

#bd999e

#bd999e
hex#bd999e
rgbrgb(189, 153, 158)
hslhsl(352, 21%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.717 0.043 8.8)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3607

Colors that go with #bd999e

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 #bd999e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#99bdb8

#bd99b0 · #bda699

#9ebd99 · #999ebd

Split-complementary

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#99bda6 · #99b0bd

#b0bd99 · #99bdb8 · #a699bd

Contrast

#bd999e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.56:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9c686f as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #754d52 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
8.21:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bd999e 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

#bd999e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bd999e
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 #bd999e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bd999e-c49c9d-62cb8a-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md