Color

#a79986

#a79986
hex#a79986
rgbrgb(167, 153, 134)
hslhsl(35, 16%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.69 0.032 75.6)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3272

Colors that go with #a79986

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 #a79986

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8694a7

#a78986 · #a4a786

#86a799 · #9986a7

Split-complementary

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#86a4a7 · #8986a7

#86a789 · #8694a7 · #a786a4

Contrast

#a79986 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.78:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #82735e as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #625647 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.11:1)
Aaon black
7.54:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a79986 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#a79986 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a79986
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 #a79986 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a79986-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md