Color

#a28581

#a28581
hex#a28581
rgbrgb(162, 133, 129)
hslhsl(7, 15%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.643 0.036 27.3)
Closest name: Argent (#888888)Relative luminance 0.2604

Colors that go with #a28581

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 #a28581

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#819ea2

#a2818e · #a29581

#81a285 · #8581a2

Split-complementary

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#81a295 · #818ea2

#8ea281 · #819ea2 · #9581a2

Contrast

#a28581 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.38:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8d6c68 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #6a514e as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.59:1)
Aaon black
6.21:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #aa908d as the text (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a28581 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

#a28581 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a28581
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 #a28581 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a28581-c4a59c-62cba4-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md