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Color
#bdc9cc
#bdc9cc
hex
#bdc9ccrgb
rgb(189, 201, 204)hsl
hsl(192, 13%, 77%)oklch
oklch(0.828 0.014 214.4)Closest name: Herring Silver (#c6c8cf)Relative luminance 0.5695
Colors that go with #bdc9cc
Charcoal, Crimson and Dark Olive Green 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #bdc9cc without the hard edge of pure #000.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #bdc9cc in 4 real palettes, including Frost & Ember and Cartier's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #bdc9cc in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #bdc9cc: 7 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #bdc9cc in 4 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Canopy, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped9 real palettes, including First Snow and Allbirds's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #bdc9cc, as the text colour against it.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln put Peru beside #bdc9cc, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #bdc9cc: 7 real palettes, including Stone and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #bdc9cc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bdc9cc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.69:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.39:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #bdc9cc as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#bdc9cc reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdc9cc
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #bdc9cc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bdc9cc-a2b5be-df4e77-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md