Color

#bdb7ad

#bdb7ad
hex#bdb7ad
rgbrgb(189, 183, 173)
hslhsl(37, 11%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.782 0.016 80.7)
Closest name: Ash (#bebaa7)Relative luminance 0.477

Colors that go with #bdb7ad

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 #bdb7ad

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#adb3bd

#bdafad · #bbbdad

#adbdb7 · #b7adbd

Split-complementary

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#adbbbd · #afadbd

#adbdaf · #adb3bd · #bdadbb

Contrast

#bdb7ad as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.99:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d7364 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #5d564b as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.11:1)
Aaon black
10.54:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdb7ad 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

#bdb7ad reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdb7ad
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 #bdb7ad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdb7ad-c4b99c-62bdcb-2c2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md