Color

#bdb5a3

#bdb5a3
hex#bdb5a3
rgbrgb(189, 181, 163)
hslhsl(42, 16%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.775 0.027 86.9)
Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.4651

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a3abbd

#bda8a3 · #b8bda3

#a3bdb5 · #b5a3bd

Split-complementary

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#a3b8bd · #a8a3bd

#a3bda8 · #a3abbd · #bda3b8

Contrast

#bdb5a3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.04:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f755c as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5745 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.14:1)
Aaon black
10.3:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdb5a3 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

#bdb5a3 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdb5a3
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 #bdb5a3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdb5a3-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md