Color

#a48474

#a48474
hex#a48474
rgbrgb(164, 132, 116)
hslhsl(20, 21%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.639 0.046 48)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2566

Colors that go with #a48474

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 #a48474

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7494a4

#a4747c · #a49c74

#74a484 · #8474a4

Split-complementary

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#74a49c · #747ca4

#7ca474 · #7494a4 · #9c74a4

Contrast

#a48474 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.43:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #916f5f as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #6c5347 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.53:1)
Aaon black
6.13:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ae9284 as the text (7.24:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a48474 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

#a48474 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a48474
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 #a48474 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a48474-c4ae9c-62cbbb-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md