Color

#a79990

#a79990
hex#a79990
rgbrgb(167, 153, 144)
hslhsl(23, 12%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.692 0.021 55)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.3301

Colors that go with #a79990

Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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 #a79990

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#909ea7

#a79092 · #a7a590

#90a799 · #9990a7

Split-complementary

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#90a7a5 · #9092a7

#92a790 · #909ea7 · #a590a7

Contrast

#a79990 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.76:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #837267 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #61544c as the text (7.29:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.6:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a79990 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#a79990 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a79990
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 #a79990 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a79990-c4b09c-62cbc0-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md