Color

#a09d79

#a09d79
hex#a09d79
rgbrgb(160, 157, 121)
hslhsl(55, 17%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.689 0.05 103.7)
Closest name: Bonsai Garden (#9e9e7c)Relative luminance 0.3297

Colors that go with #a09d79

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Blue 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 #a09d79

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#797ca0

#a08979 · #90a079

#79a09d · #9d79a0

Split-complementary

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#7990a0 · #8979a0

#79a089 · #797ca0 · #a07990

Contrast

#a09d79 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.77:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a7757 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #5c5a42 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.59:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a09d79 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

#a09d79 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a09d79
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 #a09d79 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a09d79-bdbea2-4ea0df-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md