Color

#a0986a

#a0986a
hex#a0986a
rgbrgb(160, 152, 106)
hslhsl(51, 22%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.675 0.064 99.5)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3097

Colors that go with #a0986a

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue 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 #a0986a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6a72a0

#a07d6a · #8da06a

#6aa097 · #976aa0

Split-complementary

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#6a8da0 · #7d6aa0

#6aa07d · #6a72a0 · #a06a8d

Contrast

#a0986a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.92:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c7650 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #5d583c as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #030303 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.19:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a0986a 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

#a0986a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a0986a
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 #a0986a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a0986a-c4c29c-4eaadf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md