Color

#a79772

#a79772
hex#a79772
rgbrgb(167, 151, 114)
hslhsl(42, 23%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.681 0.055 87.3)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3156

Colors that go with #a79772

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 #a79772

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7282a7

#a77c72 · #9ca772

#72a797 · #9772a7

Split-complementary

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#729ca7 · #7c72a7

#72a77c · #7282a7 · #a7729c

Contrast

#a79772 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.87:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #847552 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #61563d as the text (7.22:1)
  • 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 #a79772 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

#a79772 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a79772
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 #a79772 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a79772-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md