Color

#bdb399

#bdb399
hex#bdb399
rgbrgb(189, 179, 153)
hslhsl(43, 21%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.768 0.038 89.5)
Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.4536

Colors that go with #bdb399

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 #bdb399

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#99a3bd

#bda199 · #b5bd99

#99bdb3 · #b399bd

Split-complementary

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#99b5bd · #a199bd

#99bda1 · #99a3bd · #bd99b5

Contrast

#bdb399 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.09:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #827555 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #60563e as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.26:1)
Aaon black
10.07:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdb399 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

#bdb399 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdb399
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 #bdb399 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdb399-c4bd9c-62b2cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md