Color

#bd9f7a

#bd9f7a
hex#bd9f7a
rgbrgb(189, 159, 122)
hslhsl(33, 34%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.72 0.062 72.4)
Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.3702

Colors that go with #bd9f7a

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Cornflower Blue 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 #bd9f7a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7a98bd

#bd7d7a · #babd7a

#7abd9f · #9f7abd

Split-complementary

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#7ababd · #7d7abd

#7abd7d · #7a98bd · #bd7aba

Contrast

#bd9f7a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.5:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #906f47 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #6d5436 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.17:1)
Aaon black
8.4:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bd9f7a as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#bd9f7a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bd9f7a
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 #bd9f7a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bd9f7a-c4b79c-62c4cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md