Color

#bdb599

#bdb599
hex#bdb599
rgbrgb(189, 181, 153)
hslhsl(47, 21%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.772 0.039 93.9)
Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.4617

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#99a1bd

#bda399 · #b3bd99

#99bdb5 · #b599bd

Split-complementary

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#99b3bd · #a399bd

#99bda3 · #99a1bd · #bd99b3

Contrast

#bdb599 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.05:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f7553 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #60583e as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.09:1)
Aaon black
10.23:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdb599 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

#bdb599 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdb599
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 #bdb599 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdb599-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md