Color

#a38180

#a38180
hex#a38180
rgbrgb(163, 129, 128)
hslhsl(2, 16%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.635 0.042 20.3)
Closest name: Argent (#888888)Relative luminance 0.2505

Colors that go with #a38180

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 #a38180

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#80a2a3

#a38090 · #a39380

#80a381 · #8180a3

Split-complementary

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#80a393 · #8090a3

#90a380 · #80a2a3 · #9380a3

Contrast

#a38180 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.49:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #946c6b as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #6d504f as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.61:1)
Aaon black
6.01:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ae908f as the text (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a38180 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

#a38180 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a38180
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 #a38180 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a38180-c4a29c-62cb9c-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md