Color

#a09888

#a09888
hex#a09888
rgbrgb(160, 152, 136)
hslhsl(40, 11%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.682 0.025 84.6)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3171

Colors that go with #a09888

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 #a09888

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8890a0

#a08c88 · #9ca088

#88a098 · #9888a0

Split-complementary

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#889ca0 · #8c88a0

#88a08c · #8890a0 · #a0889c

Contrast

#a09888 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.86:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d7464 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #5d574b as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7:1)
Aaon black
7.34:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a09888 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

#a09888 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a09888
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 #a09888 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a09888-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md