Color

#a1978c

#a1978c
hex#a1978c
rgbrgb(161, 151, 140)
hslhsl(31, 10%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.682 0.02 70.1)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.316

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8c96a1

#a18c8c · #a1a18c

#8ca197 · #978ca1

Split-complementary

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#8ca1a1 · #8c8ca1

#8ca18c · #8c96a1 · #a18ca1

Contrast

#a1978c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.87:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e7367 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #5f574e as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
7.32:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a1978c 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

#a1978c reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a1978c
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a1978c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a1978c-c4b59c-62c7cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md