Color

#a79776

#a79776
hex#a79776
rgbrgb(167, 151, 118)
hslhsl(40, 22%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.682 0.05 85.1)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3166

Colors that go with #a79776

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 #a79776

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7687a7

#a77e76 · #9fa776

#76a797 · #9776a7

Split-complementary

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#769fa7 · #7e76a7

#76a77e · #7687a7 · #a7769f

Contrast

#a79776 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.86:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #837354 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #60553e as the text (7.33:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
7.33:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a79776 as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#a79776 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a79776
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 #a79776 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a79776-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md