Color

#a49f79

#a49f79
hex#a49f79
rgbrgb(164, 159, 121)
hslhsl(53, 19%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.697 0.053 101.4)
Closest name: Bonsai Garden (#9e9e7c)Relative luminance 0.3407

Colors that go with #a49f79

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Blue 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 #a49f79

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#797ea4

#a48a79 · #94a479

#79a49f · #9f79a4

Split-complementary

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#7994a4 · #8a79a4

#79a48a · #797ea4 · #a47994

Contrast

#a49f79 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.69:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #797553 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #5b583e as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.13:1)
Aaon black
7.81:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a49f79 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

#a49f79 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a49f79
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 #a49f79 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a49f79-c4c49c-4ea5df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md