Color

#a48994

#a48994
hex#a48994
rgbrgb(164, 137, 148)
hslhsl(336, 13%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.658 0.036 351.7)
Closest name: Hatoba Pigeon (#95859c)Relative luminance 0.2792

Colors that go with #a48994

Charcoal, Blush Pink 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 #a48994

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#89a499

#a489a1 · #a48c89

#94a489 · #8994a4

Split-complementary

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#89a48c · #89a1a4

#a1a489 · #89a499 · #8c89a4

Contrast

#a48994 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.19:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8d6d7a as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #6b525c as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.56:1)
Aaon black
6.58:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a88f99 as the text (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a48994 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

#a48994 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a48994
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 #a48994 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a48994-c49ca7-62cb6e-2d201f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md