Color

#bdb2b2

#bdb2b2
hex#bdb2b2
rgbrgb(189, 178, 178)
hslhsl(0, 8%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.773 0.013 17.4)
Closest name: Nebulous December (#b3b2bf)Relative luminance 0.4587

Colors that go with #bdb2b2

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 #bdb2b2

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b2bdbd

#bdb2b8 · #bdb8b2

#b2bdb2 · #b2b2bd

Split-complementary

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#b2bdb8 · #b2b8bd

#b8bdb2 · #b2bdbd · #b8b2bd

Contrast

#bdb2b2 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.06:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #847171 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #635454 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
10.17:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdb2b2 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#bdb2b2 reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdb2b2
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 #bdb2b2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdb2b2-c4a19c-62cb98-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md