Color
#bdadd1
#bdadd1rgb(189, 173, 209)hsl(267, 28%, 75%)oklch(0.773 0.053 305.3)Colors that go with #bdadd1
Charcoal, Dark Sea Green 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #bdadd1: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Sea Green #8fbc8f
complementaryshippedDark Sea Green sits directly opposite #bdadd1 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #bdadd1 in 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Riverbed, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #bdadd1 in 7 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Lavender Haze, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #bdadd1 in 5 real palettes, including First Snow and Stone, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #bdadd1 in 9 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Graphite Mono, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #bdadd1 in 21 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Still Water, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sand #c2b280
split-complementshippedSand is a split-complement of #bdadd1: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #bdadd1
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bdadd1 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.09:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.06:1 | 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 #bdadd1 as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#bdadd1 reads as cool, muted, light. 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 #bdadd1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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