Color

#bdc0aa

#bdc0aa
hex#bdc0aa
rgbrgb(189, 192, 170)
hslhsl(68, 15%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.799 0.03 113.4)
Closest name: Ash (#bebaa7)Relative luminance 0.5142

Colors that go with #bdc0aa

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 #bdc0aa

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#adaac0

#c0b8aa · #b2c0aa

#aabdc0 · #c0aabd

Split-complementary

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#aab2c0 · #b8aac0

#aac0b8 · #adaac0 · #c0aab2

Contrast

#bdc0aa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.86:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #747859 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #585b43 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.09:1)
Aaon black
11.28:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdc0aa 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

#bdc0aa reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdc0aa
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 #bdc0aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdc0aa-b7bea2-4e81df-252d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md