Color

#bdc5cb

#bdc5cb
hex#bdc5cb
rgbrgb(189, 197, 203)
hslhsl(206, 12%, 77%)
oklchoklch(0.819 0.012 239.9)
Closest name: Explosive Grey (#c4c4c4)Relative luminance 0.5506

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cbc3bd

#bdcbca · #bdbecb

#cbbdc5 · #c5cbbd

Split-complementary

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#cbbdbe · #cbcabd

#cabdcb · #cbc3bd · #becbbd

Contrast

#bdc5cb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.75:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #677783 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #4c5861 as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4f4f4f (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #333333 (7.23:1)
Aaon black
12.01:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdc5cb 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

#bdc5cb reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdc5cb
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 #bdc5cb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdc5cb-9caec4-df4e56-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md