Color

#bdb59e

#bdb59e
hex#bdb59e
rgbrgb(189, 181, 158)
hslhsl(45, 19%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.773 0.033 91.1)
Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.4634

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9ea6bd

#bda69e · #b5bd9e

#9ebdb5 · #b59ebd

Split-complementary

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#9eb5bd · #a69ebd

#9ebda6 · #9ea6bd · #bd9eb5

Contrast

#bdb59e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.05:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f7557 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #5e5740 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
10.27:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdb59e 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

#bdb59e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdb59e
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 #bdb59e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdb59e-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md