Color

#a59969

#a59969
hex#a59969
rgbrgb(165, 153, 105)
hslhsl(48, 25%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.682 0.067 95.8)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.318

Colors that go with #a59969

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 #a59969

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6975a5

#a57b69 · #93a569

#69a599 · #9969a5

Split-complementary

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#6993a5 · #7b69a5

#69a57b · #6975a5 · #a56993

Contrast

#a59969 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.85:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #80754d as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #605839 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.36:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a59969 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

#a59969 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a59969
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 #a59969 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a59969-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md