Color

#bd9ebc

#bd9ebc
hex#bd9ebc
rgbrgb(189, 158, 188)
hslhsl(302, 19%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.736 0.055 327.1)
Closest name: Dripping Wisteria (#bb99bb)Relative luminance 0.389

Colors that go with #bd9ebc

Charcoal, Dark Sea Green and Copper 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 #bd9ebc

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9ebd9f

#ae9ebd · #bd9eac

#bcbd9e · #9ebcbd

Split-complementary

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#acbd9e · #9ebdae

#bdae9e · #9ebd9f · #9eacbd

Contrast

#bd9ebc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.39:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #956593 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #704c6f as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.13:1)
Aaon black
8.78:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bd9ebc 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

#bd9ebc reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bd9ebc
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 #bd9ebc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bd9ebc-c19fbc-91cb62-2d1f27-eee9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md