Color

#bdad8f

#bdad8f
hex#bdad8f
rgbrgb(189, 173, 143)
hslhsl(39, 26%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.753 0.045 83.1)
Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.4269

Colors that go with #bdad8f

Charcoal, Champagne 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 #bdad8f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8f9fbd

#bd968f · #b6bd8f

#8fbdad · #ad8fbd

Split-complementary

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#8fb6bd · #968fbd

#8fbd96 · #8f9fbd · #bd8fb6

Contrast

#bdad8f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.2:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #87734f as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #64553a as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
9.54:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdad8f 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

#bdad8f reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdad8f
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 #bdad8f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdad8f-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md