Color

#a29b86

#a29b86
hex#a29b86
rgbrgb(162, 155, 134)
hslhsl(45, 13%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.69 0.031 91.7)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3285

Colors that go with #a29b86

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue 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 #a29b86

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#868da2

#a28d86 · #9ba286

#86a29b · #9b86a2

Split-complementary

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#869ba2 · #8d86a2

#86a28d · #868da2 · #a2869b

Contrast

#a29b86 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.77:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c755f as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #5c5747 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.57:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a29b86 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

Fonts for this mood

#a29b86 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a29b86
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 #a29b86 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a29b86-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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