Color

#a38c8a

#a38c8a
hex#a38c8a
rgbrgb(163, 140, 138)
hslhsl(5, 12%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.66 0.028 23.8)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2838

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8aa1a3

#a38a94 · #a3998a

#8aa38c · #8c8aa3

Split-complementary

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#8aa399 · #8a94a3

#94a38a · #8aa1a3 · #998aa3

Contrast

#a38c8a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.15:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8c706e as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #675351 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.5:1)
Aaon black
6.68:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a79290 as the text (7.16:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a38c8a 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

#a38c8a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a38c8a
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 #a38c8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a38c8a-c4a49c-62cba1-2d261f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md