Color

#bdadbd

#bdadbd
hex#bdadbd
rgbrgb(189, 173, 189)
hslhsl(300, 11%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.766 0.029 325.9)
Closest name: Nebulous December (#b3b2bf)Relative luminance 0.4438

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#adbdad

#b5adbd · #bdadb5

#bdbdad · #adbdbd

Split-complementary

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#b5bdad · #adbdb5

#bdb5ad · #adbdad · #adb5bd

Contrast

#bdadbd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.13:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #886d88 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #665266 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
9.88:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdadbd 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

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdadbd
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #bdadbd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdadbd-c19fbd-95cb62-2d1f27-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md