Color

#bdb298

#bdb298
hex#bdb298
rgbrgb(189, 178, 152)
hslhsl(42, 22%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.766 0.038 87.8)
Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.4493

Colors that go with #bdb298

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 #bdb298

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#98a3bd

#bda098 · #b6bd98

#98bdb2 · #b298bd

Split-complementary

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#98b6bd · #a098bd

#98bda0 · #98a3bd · #bd98b6

Contrast

#bdb298 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.1:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #837554 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #60563e as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.2:1)
Aaon black
9.99:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdb298 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

#bdb298 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdb298
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 #bdb298 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdb298-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md