Color

#a68c8d

#a68c8d
hex#a68c8d
rgbrgb(166, 140, 141)
hslhsl(358, 13%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.664 0.032 15.4)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2879

Colors that go with #a68c8d

Charcoal, Peru 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 #a68c8d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8ca6a5

#a68c9a · #a6988c

#8da68c · #8c8da6

Split-complementary

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#8ca698 · #8c9aa6

#9aa68c · #8ca6a5 · #988ca6

Contrast

#a68c8d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.11:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8d6d6e as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #6b5253 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.56:1)
Aaon black
6.76:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ab9292 as the text (7.26:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a68c8d 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

#a68c8d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a68c8d
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 #a68c8d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a68c8d-c49f9c-62cb95-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md