Clean Beauty
Open in tool →Sage and clay on unbleached white — the nothing-to-hide palette for ingredient-led skincare.
Color
#bdae9e
#bdae9e
hex
#bdae9ergb
rgb(189, 174, 158)hsl
hsl(31, 19%, 68%)oklch
oklch(0.759 0.028 69.2)Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.4356
Colors that go with #bdae9e
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #bdae9e without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #bdae9e in 6 real palettes, including Bramble and Midnight Luxe, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #bdae9e in 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #bdae9e in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #bdae9e in 4 real palettes, including Open House and Guinness's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #bdae9e in 5 real palettes, including Bramble and Sepia Mono, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #bdae9e in 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Canopy, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #bdae9e in 5 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Open House, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #bdae9e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bdae9e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.16:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.71:1 | 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 #bdae9e as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#bdae9e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdae9e
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #bdae9e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bdae9e-c4b59c-62c7cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md