Pine & Birch
Open in tool →One deep pine on birch-white with sage and bark greys — Scandinavian forest: mostly light, one committed green.
Color
#a0ac91
#a0ac91
hex
#a0ac91rgb
rgb(160, 172, 145)hsl
hsl(87, 14%, 62%)oklch
oklch(0.727 0.04 126.9)Closest name: Moorland (#a6ab9b)Relative luminance 0.3902
Colors that go with #a0ac91
Charcoal, Lilac 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a0ac91: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #a0ac91 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #a0ac91, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #a0ac91, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bramble put Champagne beside #a0ac91, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #a0ac91: 7 real palettes, including Riverbed and Clean Beauty, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a0ac91 in 4 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Oatmeal, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #a0ac91: 4 real palettes, including Liquid Death's brand system and Spline's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #a0ac91
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a0ac91 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.39:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.8:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #a0ac91 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
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a0ac91
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #a0ac91 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a0ac91-aebea2-4e53df-212d1f-f1f1e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md