Color

#bdb7be

#bdb7be
hex#bdb7be
rgbrgb(189, 183, 190)
hslhsl(291, 5%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.786 0.012 321.3)
Closest name: Dust to Dust (#bbbcbc)Relative luminance 0.484

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b8beb7

#b9b7be · #beb7bb

#bebdb7 · #b7bebd

Split-complementary

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#bbbeb7 · #b7beb9

#beb9b7 · #b8beb7 · #b7bbbe

Contrast

#bdb7be as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.97:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c727e as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #5c555e as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.2:1)
Aaon black
10.68:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdb7be 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

#bdb7be reads as neutral, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdb7be
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 #bdb7be and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdb7be-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md