Color

#bdb79e

#bdb79e
hex#bdb79e
rgbrgb(189, 183, 158)
hslhsl(48, 19%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.778 0.035 96)
Closest name: Ash (#bebaa7)Relative luminance 0.4715

Colors that go with #bdb79e

Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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.

Real palettes that use #bdb79e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9ea4bd

#bda79e · #b4bd9e

#9ebdb7 · #b79ebd

Split-complementary

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#9eb4bd · #a79ebd

#9ebda7 · #9ea4bd · #bd9eb4

Contrast

#bdb79e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.01:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c7455 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #5e5840 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.03:1)
Aaon black
10.43:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdb79e 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

#bdb79e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdb79e
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 #bdb79e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdb79e-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md