Riverbed
Open in tool →Wet-stone green and pebble grey with a copper accent — an earth palette that leans cool, for outdoor and wellness.
Color
#a49989
#a49989
hex
#a49989rgb
rgb(164, 153, 137)hsl
hsl(36, 13%, 59%)oklch
oklch(0.688 0.026 77.4)Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3248
Colors that go with #a49989
Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #a49989 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #a49989 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Polaroid, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bramble put Champagne beside #a49989, as the surface under it.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a49989 in 6 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #a49989: 4 real palettes, including Studio Grey and Spline's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #a49989 in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Open House, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a49989 in 7 real palettes, including Darkroom and Pine & Birch, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #a49989
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a49989 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.8:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.5:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #a49989 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#a49989 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a49989
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #a49989 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a49989-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md