Color

#bdb8a3

#bdb8a3
hex#bdb8a3
rgbrgb(189, 184, 163)
hslhsl(48, 16%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.781 0.03 96)
Closest name: Ash (#bebaa7)Relative luminance 0.4774

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a3a8bd

#bdaba3 · #b5bda3

#a3bdb8 · #b8a3bd

Split-complementary

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#a3b5bd · #aba3bd

#a3bdab · #a3a8bd · #bda3b5

Contrast

#bdb8a3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.99:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c755a as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #5c5742 as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.11:1)
Aaon black
10.55:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdb8a3 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

#bdb8a3 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdb8a3
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 #bdb8a3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdb8a3-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md