Oatmeal
Open in tool →Four warm greys from bark to oat — the neutral palette that photographs well and never argues with a product shot.
Color
#a69787
#a69787
hex
#a69787rgb
rgb(166, 151, 135)hsl
hsl(31, 15%, 59%)oklch
oklch(0.685 0.029 69.1)Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.3199
Colors that go with #a69787
Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #a69787 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #a69787 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Polaroid, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bramble put Champagne beside #a69787, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #a69787: 8 real palettes, including Riverbed and Bakery, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a69787 in 6 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #a69787: 5 real palettes, including Studio Grey and Spline's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #a69787 in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Open House, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a69787 in 7 real palettes, including Darkroom and Pine & Birch, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #a69787
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a69787 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.84:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.4:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #a69787 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#a69787 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a69787
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #a69787 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a69787-c4b59c-62c7cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md