Color

#a48a89

#a48a89
hex#a48a89
rgbrgb(164, 138, 137)
hslhsl(2, 13%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.657 0.032 20.6)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2788

Colors that go with #a48a89

Charcoal, Peru 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 #a48a89

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#89a3a4

#a48996 · #a49789

#89a48a · #8a89a4

Split-complementary

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#89a497 · #8996a4

#96a489 · #89a3a4 · #9789a4

Contrast

#a48a89 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.19:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8d6e6d as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #6b5352 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.56:1)
Aaon black
6.58:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ab9292 as the text (7.26:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a48a89 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

#a48a89 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a48a89
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 #a48a89 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a48a89-c4a29c-62cb9c-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md