Color

#a69868

#a69868
hex#a69868
rgbrgb(166, 152, 104)
hslhsl(46, 26%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.68 0.067 93.8)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3156

Colors that go with #a69868

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 #a69868

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6877a6

#a67968 · #96a668

#68a698 · #9868a6

Split-complementary

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#6896a6 · #7968a6

#68a679 · #6877a6 · #a66896

Contrast

#a69868 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.87:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #81744b as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #605739 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
7.31:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a69868 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

#a69868 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a69868
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 #a69868 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a69868-c4bf9c-62adcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md