Color

#a68b82

#a68b82
hex#a68b82
rgbrgb(166, 139, 130)
hslhsl(15, 17%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.659 0.036 39.3)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2818

Colors that go with #a68b82

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #a68b82

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#829da6

#a6828b · #a69d82

#82a68b · #8b82a6

Split-complementary

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#82a69d · #828ba6

#8ba682 · #829da6 · #9d82a6

Contrast

#a68b82 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.16:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8c6e63 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #6b544c as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.6:1)
Aaon black
6.64:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #aa9088 as the text (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a68b82 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

#a68b82 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a68b82
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 #a68b82 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a68b82-c4ab9c-62cbb2-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md