Color

#bdb2a3

#bdb2a3
hex#bdb2a3
rgbrgb(189, 178, 163)
hslhsl(35, 16%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.769 0.024 75.8)
Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.453

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a3aebd

#bda5a3 · #babda3

#a3bdb2 · #b2a3bd

Split-complementary

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#a3babd · #a5a3bd

#a3bda5 · #a3aebd · #bda3ba

Contrast

#bdb2a3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.09:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #82735e as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #625647 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.25:1)
Aaon black
10.06:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdb2a3 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

#bdb2a3 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdb2a3
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 #bdb2a3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdb2a3-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md