Color

#bdb789

#bdb789
hex#bdb789
rgbrgb(189, 183, 137)
hslhsl(53, 28%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.773 0.062 101.5)
Closest name: Sand (#c2b280)Relative luminance 0.4649

Colors that go with #bdb789

Charcoal, Lilac and Blue lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#898fbd

#bd9d89 · #a9bd89

#89bdb7 · #b789bd

Split-complementary

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#89a9bd · #9d89bd

#89bd9d · #898fbd · #bd89a9

Contrast

#bdb789 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.04:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c7646 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #5b5733 as the text (7.35:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.13:1)
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 #bdb789 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#bdb789 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdb789
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #bdb789 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdb789-c4c49c-4ea5df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md