Color
#bd9e9f
#bd9e9frgb(189, 158, 159)hsl(358, 19%, 68%)oklch(0.727 0.037 15.8)Colors that go with #bd9e9f
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #bd9e9f: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #bd9e9f in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bramble put Champagne beside #bd9e9f, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #bd9e9f: 7 real palettes, including Riverbed and Clean Beauty, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #bd9e9f in 4 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Cartier's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #bd9e9f in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #bd9e9f: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
complementaryLight Sea Green sits directly opposite #bd9e9f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bd9e9f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.45:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.56:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #bd9e9f 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
#bd9e9f reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #bd9e9f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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