Color

#bdbda3

#bdbda3
hex#bdbda3
rgbrgb(189, 189, 163)
hslhsl(60, 16%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.791 0.036 107.2)
Closest name: Ash (#bebaa7)Relative luminance 0.4986

Colors that go with #bdbda3

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 #bdbda3

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a3a3bd

#bdb0a3 · #b0bda3

#a3bdbd · #bda3bd

Split-complementary

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#a3b0bd · #b0a3bd

#a3bdb0 · #a3a3bd · #bda3b0

Contrast

#bdbda3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.91:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #767656 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #595940 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.09:1)
Aaon black
10.97:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdbda3 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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdbda3
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 #bdbda3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdbda3-bbbea2-4e94df-272d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md