Color

#a7986c

#a7986c
hex#a7986c
rgbrgb(167, 152, 108)
hslhsl(45, 25%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.682 0.063 91.4)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3175

Colors that go with #a7986c

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 #a7986c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6c7ba7

#a77b6c · #98a76c

#6ca798 · #986ca7

Split-complementary

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#6c98a7 · #7b6ca7

#6ca77b · #6c7ba7 · #a76c98

Contrast

#a7986c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.86:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #83764e as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #605639 as the text (7.27:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.35:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a7986c 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

#a7986c reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a7986c
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 #a7986c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a7986c-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md