Color

#bdb5ad

#bdb5ad
hex#bdb5ad
rgbrgb(189, 181, 173)
hslhsl(30, 11%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.777 0.014 67.6)
Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.4688

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#adb5bd

#bdadad · #bdbdad

#adbdb5 · #b5adbd

Split-complementary

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#adbdbd · #adadbd

#adbdad · #adb5bd · #bdadbd

Contrast

#bdb5ad as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.02:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f7366 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #60574d as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.19:1)
Aaon black
10.38:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdb5ad 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

#bdb5ad reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdb5ad
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 #bdb5ad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdb5ad-c4b59c-62c9cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md