Color

#a3987b

#a3987b
hex#a3987b
rgbrgb(163, 152, 123)
hslhsl(44, 18%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.681 0.043 89.7)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3167

Colors that go with #a3987b

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 #a3987b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7b85a3

#a3847b · #9aa37b

#7ba398 · #987ba3

Split-complementary

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#7b9aa3 · #847ba3

#7ba384 · #7b85a3 · #a37b9a

Contrast

#a3987b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.86:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e7458 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #605843 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
7.33:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a3987b as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#a3987b reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a3987b
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 #a3987b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a3987b-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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