Color

#a49a89

#a49a89
hex#a49a89
rgbrgb(164, 154, 137)
hslhsl(38, 13%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.69 0.027 81.1)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3281

Colors that go with #a49a89

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.

Real palettes that use #a49a89

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8993a4

#a48c89 · #a0a489

#89a49a · #9a89a4

Split-complementary

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#89a0a4 · #8c89a4

#89a48c · #8993a4 · #a489a0

Contrast

#a49a89 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.78:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f7462 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5749 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.13:1)
Aaon black
7.56:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a49a89 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

#a49a89 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a49a89
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 #a49a89 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a49a89-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md