Color

#bdb2bb

#bdb2bb
hex#bdb2bb
rgbrgb(189, 178, 187)
hslhsl(311, 8%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.775 0.018 331.7)
Closest name: Nebulous December (#b3b2bf)Relative luminance 0.4625

Colors that go with #bdb2bb

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 #bdb2bb

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b2bdb4

#bab2bd · #bdb2b6

#bbbdb2 · #b2bbbd

Split-complementary

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#b6bdb2 · #b2bdba

#bdbab2 · #b2bdb4 · #b2b6bd

Contrast

#bdb2bb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.05:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #847181 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #635460 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
10.25:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdb2bb 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

#bdb2bb reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdb2bb
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 #bdb2bb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdb2bb-c19fb7-82cb62-2d1f25-efe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md