Color

#a79a72

#a79a72
hex#a79a72
rgbrgb(167, 154, 114)
hslhsl(45, 23%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.687 0.057 92.2)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3254

Colors that go with #a79a72

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#727fa7

#a77f72 · #99a772

#72a799 · #9972a7

Split-complementary

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#7299a7 · #7f72a7

#72a77f · #727fa7 · #a77299

Contrast

#a79a72 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.8:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #817551 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #61583d as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.51:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a79a72 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

#a79a72 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a79a72
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 #a79a72 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a79a72-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md