Color

#bdbab3

#bdbab3
hex#bdbab3
rgbrgb(189, 186, 179)
hslhsl(42, 7%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.789 0.01 87.5)
Closest name: Dust to Dust (#bbbcbc)Relative luminance 0.4919

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b3b6bd

#bdb5b3 · #bbbdb3

#b3bdba · #bab3bd

Split-complementary

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#b3bbbd · #b5b3bd

#b3bdb5 · #b3b6bd · #bdb3bb

Contrast

#bdbab3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.94:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b766b as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #5a574e as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.01:1)
Aaon black
10.84:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdbab3 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

#bdbab3 reads as neutral, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdbab3
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 #bdbab3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdbab3-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md