Color

#bdba9e

#bdba9e
hex#bdba9e
rgbrgb(189, 186, 158)
hslhsl(54, 19%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.784 0.039 102.2)
Closest name: Ash (#bebaa7)Relative luminance 0.4841

Colors that go with #bdba9e

Charcoal, Lilac and Champagne 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 #bdba9e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9ea1bd

#bdaa9e · #b1bd9e

#9ebdba · #ba9ebd

Split-complementary

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#9eb1bd · #aa9ebd

#9ebdaa · #9ea1bd · #bd9eb1

Contrast

#bdba9e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.97:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #797653 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #5b583e as the text (7.22:1)
  • 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 #bdba9e 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

#bdba9e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdba9e
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 #bdba9e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdba9e-bebea2-4ea2df-292d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md