Color

#a28e8b

#a28e8b
hex#a28e8b
rgbrgb(162, 142, 139)
hslhsl(8, 11%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.664 0.025 27.9)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2889

Colors that go with #a28e8b

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #a28e8b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8b9fa2

#a28b93 · #a29a8b

#8ba28e · #8e8ba2

Split-complementary

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#8ba29a · #8b93a2

#93a28b · #8b9fa2 · #9a8ba2

Contrast

#a28e8b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.1:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #88716d as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #665452 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.57:1)
Aaon black
6.78:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a4918e as the text (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a28e8b 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

#a28e8b reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a28e8b
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 #a28e8b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a28e8b-c4a69c-62cba6-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md