Color

#bdadba

#bdadba
hex#bdadba
rgbrgb(189, 173, 186)
hslhsl(311, 11%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.765 0.026 332)
Closest name: Nebulous December (#b3b2bf)Relative luminance 0.4425

Colors that go with #bdadba

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 #bdadba

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#adbdb0

#b8adbd · #bdadb2

#babdad · #adbabd

Split-complementary

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#b2bdad · #adbdb8

#bdb8ad · #adbdb0 · #adb2bd

Contrast

#bdadba as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.13:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #886d83 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #665262 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.71:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
9.85:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdadba 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

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

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

tool url/palettes/new/bdadba-c19fb7-82cb62-2d1f25-efe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md