Color

#bd9ea8

#bd9ea8
hex#bd9ea8
rgbrgb(189, 158, 168)
hslhsl(341, 19%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.73 0.039 356.7)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.381

Colors that go with #bd9ea8

Charcoal, Dark Sea Green 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 #bd9ea8

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9ebdb3

#bd9eb7 · #bda49e

#a8bd9e · #9ea8bd

Split-complementary

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#9ebda4 · #9eb7bd

#b7bd9e · #9ebdb3 · #a49ebd

Contrast

#bd9ea8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.44:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #986777 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #734e5a as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.14:1)
Aaon black
8.62:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bd9ea8 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

#bd9ea8 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bd9ea8
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 #bd9ea8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bd9ea8-c49ca4-62cb77-2d211f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md