Color

#a17d8a

#a17d8a
hex#a17d8a
rgbrgb(161, 125, 138)
hslhsl(338, 16%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.628 0.048 355)
Closest name: Amorous (#967d96)Relative luminance 0.2408

Colors that go with #a17d8a

Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Blush Pink 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 #a17d8a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7da194

#a17d9c · #a1827d

#8aa17d · #7d8aa1

Split-complementary

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#7da182 · #7d9ca1

#9ca17d · #7da194 · #827da1

Contrast

#a17d8a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.61:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #946b7a as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #6d4f5a as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (4.56:1)
Aaon black
5.82:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ae8f9a as the text (7.2:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a17d8a 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

#a17d8a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a17d8a
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 #a17d8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a17d8a-c49ca6-62cb72-2d201f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md