Garden Wedding
Open in tool →Sage green, blush and a soft gold on ivory — the wedding palette of the decade, with text dark enough for an actual invitation.
Color
#bda86b
#bda86b
hex
#bda86brgb
rgb(189, 168, 107)hsl
hsl(45, 38%, 58%)oklch
oklch(0.736 0.084 91.2)Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.3989
Colors that go with #bda86b
Charcoal, Lilac and Blush Pink 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 #bda86b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #bda86b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Estate put Blush Pink beside #bda86b, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #bda86b: 6 real palettes, including Open House and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #bda86b, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #bda86b: 5 real palettes, including Bramble and Bakery, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #bda86b in 4 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #bda86b in 6 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #bda86b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bda86b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.34:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.98:1 | 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 #bda86b as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#bda86b reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bda86b
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #bda86b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bda86b-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md