Color

#a49d79

#a49d79
hex#a49d79
rgbrgb(164, 157, 121)
hslhsl(50, 19%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.693 0.051 98.3)
Closest name: Bonsai Garden (#9e9e7c)Relative luminance 0.3339

Colors that go with #a49d79

Charcoal, Cornflower 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 #a49d79

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7981a4

#a48879 · #96a479

#79a49d · #9d79a4

Split-complementary

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#7996a4 · #8879a4

#79a488 · #7981a4 · #a47996

Contrast

#a49d79 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.74:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c7655 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #5e5940 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.68:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a49d79 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

#a49d79 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a49d79
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 #a49d79 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a49d79-c4c29c-4eacdf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md