Color
#bdad65
#bdad65rgb(189, 173, 101)hsl(49, 40%, 57%)oklch(0.745 0.094 97.2)Colors that go with #bdad65
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 #bdad65: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #bdad65 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 Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #bdad65, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #bdad65: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Bramble put Champagne beside #bdad65, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #bdad65: 5 real palettes, including Bramble and Desert Road, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #bdad65: 5 real palettes, including Gopro's brand system and Webflow's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #bdad65 in 4 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Cartier's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #bdad65
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bdad65 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.25:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.33:1 | 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 #bdad65 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
#bdad65 reads as warm. 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 #bdad65 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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