Color

#a09288

#a09288
hex#a09288
rgbrgb(160, 146, 136)
hslhsl(25, 11%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.669 0.022 57.9)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2981

Colors that go with #a09288

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #a09288

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8896a0

#a0888a · #a09e88

#88a092 · #9288a0

Split-complementary

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#88a09e · #888aa0

#8aa088 · #8896a0 · #9e88a0

Contrast

#a09288 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.02:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #827368 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #60554d as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.5:1)
Aaon black
6.96:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a2958b as the text (7.21:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a09288 as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#a09288 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a09288
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 #a09288 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a09288-c4b19c-62cbc4-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md