Color

#bdb199

#bdb199
hex#bdb199
rgbrgb(189, 177, 153)
hslhsl(40, 21%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.764 0.036 84.6)
Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.4456

Colors that go with #bdb199

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 #bdb199

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#99a5bd

#bd9f99 · #b7bd99

#99bdb1 · #b199bd

Split-complementary

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#99b7bd · #9f99bd

#99bd9f · #99a5bd · #bd99b7

Contrast

#bdb199 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.12:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #827355 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #635740 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.14:1)
Aaon black
9.91:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdb199 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

#bdb199 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdb199
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 #bdb199 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdb199-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md