Color

#bdc1ae

#bdc1ae
hex#bdc1ae
rgbrgb(189, 193, 174)
hslhsl(73, 13%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.802 0.027 116.7)
Closest name: Irish Moor (#b5c0b3)Relative luminance 0.5201

Colors that go with #bdc1ae

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 #bdc1ae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b2aec1

#c1bcae · #b4c1ae

#aebdc1 · #c1aebd

Split-complementary

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#aeb4c1 · #bcaec1

#aec1bc · #b2aec1 · #c1aeb4

Contrast

#bdc1ae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.84:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #73795d as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #555945 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.17:1)
Aaon black
11.4:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdc1ae 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

#bdc1ae reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdc1ae
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 #bdc1ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdc1ae-b5bea2-4e75df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md