Color

#bdb699

#bdb699
hex#bdb699
rgbrgb(189, 182, 153)
hslhsl(48, 21%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.774 0.041 96)
Closest name: Ashes to Ashes (#bbb3a2)Relative luminance 0.4657

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#99a0bd

#bda499 · #b2bd99

#99bdb5 · #b599bd

Split-complementary

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#99b2bd · #a499bd

#99bda4 · #99a0bd · #bd99b2

Contrast

#bdb699 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.04:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f7653 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #60593e as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.15:1)
Aaon black
10.31:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdb699 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

#bdb699 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdb699
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 #bdb699 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdb699-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md