Color

#a79a7b

#a79a7b
hex#a79a7b
rgbrgb(167, 154, 123)
hslhsl(42, 20%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.689 0.046 88)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3276

Colors that go with #a79a7b

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 #a79a7b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7b89a7

#a7847b · #9fa77b

#7ba79a · #9a7ba7

Split-complementary

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#7b9fa7 · #847ba7

#7ba784 · #7b89a7 · #a77b9f

Contrast

#a79a7b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.78:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #817456 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #625841 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.12:1)
Aaon black
7.55:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a79a7b 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

#a79a7b reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a79a7b
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 #a79a7b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a79a7b-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md