Color

#a09588

#a09588
hex#a09588
rgbrgb(160, 149, 136)
hslhsl(33, 11%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.676 0.023 72)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.3075

Colors that go with #a09588

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 #a09588

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8893a0

#a08988 · #9fa088

#88a095 · #9588a0

Split-complementary

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#889fa0 · #8988a0

#88a089 · #8893a0 · #a0889f

Contrast

#a09588 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.94:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f7466 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #5d554b as the text (7.33:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #030303 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.15:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a09588 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#a09588 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a09588
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 #a09588 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a09588-c4b79c-62c4cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md