Color

#bdc5af

#bdc5af
hex#bdc5af
rgbrgb(189, 197, 175)
hslhsl(82, 16%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.811 0.031 123.4)
Closest name: Bok Choy (#bccab3)Relative luminance 0.5385

Colors that go with #bdc5af

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 #bdc5af

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b7afc5

#c5c2af · #b2c5af

#afbdc5 · #c5afbd

Split-complementary

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#afb2c5 · #c2afc5

#afc5c2 · #b7afc5 · #c5afb2

Contrast

#bdc5af as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.78:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6d7958 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #525c42 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4f4f4f (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #333333 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
11.77:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdc5af 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

#bdc5af reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdc5af
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 #bdc5af and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdc5af-b0bea2-4e5fdf-222d1f-f1f0e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md