Color

#bdbda8

#bdbda8
hex#bdbda8
rgbrgb(189, 189, 168)
hslhsl(60, 14%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.793 0.029 107)
Closest name: Ash (#bebaa7)Relative luminance 0.5004

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a8a8bd

#bdb3a8 · #b3bda8

#a8bdbd · #bda8bd

Split-complementary

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#a8b3bd · #b3a8bd

#a8bdb3 · #a8a8bd · #bda8b3

Contrast

#bdbda8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.91:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #77775a as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #5a5a44 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.12:1)
Aaon black
11.01:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdbda8 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

#bdbda8 reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdbda8
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 #bdbda8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdbda8-bbbea2-4e94df-272d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md