Color

#bdb49e

#bdb49e
hex#bdb49e
rgbrgb(189, 180, 158)
hslhsl(43, 19%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.771 0.032 88.4)
Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.4593

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9ea7bd

#bda59e · #b6bd9e

#9ebdb4 · #b49ebd

Split-complementary

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#9eb6bd · #a59ebd

#9ebda5 · #9ea7bd · #bd9eb6

Contrast

#bdb49e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.06:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f7457 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #615842 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
10.19:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdb49e 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

#bdb49e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdb49e
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 #bdb49e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdb49e-c4bd9c-62b2cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md