Color

#bdadb9

#bdadb9
hex#bdadb9
rgbrgb(189, 173, 185)
hslhsl(315, 11%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.765 0.025 334.4)
Closest name: Nebulous December (#b3b2bf)Relative luminance 0.4421

Colors that go with #bdadb9

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 #bdadb9

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#adbdb1

#b9adbd · #bdadb1

#b9bdad · #adb9bd

Split-complementary

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#b1bdad · #adbdb9

#bdb9ad · #adbdb1 · #adb1bd

Contrast

#bdadb9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.13:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #886d81 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #665261 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.71:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.09:1)
Aaon black
9.84:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdadb9 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

#bdadb9 reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdadb9
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 #bdadb9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdadb9-c19fb4-7bcb62-2d1f24-efe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md