Color

#bdbaa8

#bdbaa8
hex#bdbaa8
rgbrgb(189, 186, 168)
hslhsl(51, 14%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.786 0.025 99.2)
Closest name: Ash (#bebaa7)Relative luminance 0.4876

Colors that go with #bdbaa8

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 #bdbaa8

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a8abbd

#bdafa8 · #b6bda8

#a8bdba · #baa8bd

Split-complementary

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#a8b6bd · #afa8bd

#a8bdaf · #a8abbd · #bda8b6

Contrast

#bdbaa8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.95:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a765c as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #5a5744 as the text (7.29:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.25:1)
Aaon black
10.75:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdbaa8 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

#bdbaa8 reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdbaa8
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 #bdbaa8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdbaa8-c4c29c-4eaadf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md