Color

#a6985e

#a6985e
hex#a6985e
rgbrgb(166, 152, 94)
hslhsl(48, 29%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.678 0.079 96.2)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.3137

Colors that go with #a6985e

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue 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 #a6985e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5e6ca6

#a6745e · #91a65e

#5ea698 · #985ea6

Split-complementary

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#5e91a6 · #745ea6

#5ea674 · #5e6ca6 · #a65e91

Contrast

#a6985e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.89:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #807547 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5735 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
7.27:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a6985e 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

#a6985e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a6985e
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 #a6985e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a6985e-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md