Color

#bdba98

#bdba98
hex#bdba98
rgbrgb(189, 186, 152)
hslhsl(55, 22%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.782 0.046 103.2)
Closest name: Animal Kingdom (#bcc09e)Relative luminance 0.482

Colors that go with #bdba98

Charcoal, Lilac and Cadet 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.

Real palettes that use #bdba98

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#989bbd

#bda898 · #aebd98

#98bdba · #ba98bd

Split-complementary

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#98aebd · #a898bd

#98bda8 · #989bbd · #bd98ae

Contrast

#bdba98 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.97:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #79764e as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #5a583a as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.71:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.17:1)
Aaon black
10.64:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdba98 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

#bdba98 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdba98
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 #bdba98 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdba98-bdbea2-4ea0df-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md