Color

#a79c8b

#a79c8b
hex#a79c8b
rgbrgb(167, 156, 139)
hslhsl(36, 14%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.697 0.027 78.8)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3386

Colors that go with #a79c8b

Charcoal, Blush Pink 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 #a79c8b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8b96a7

#a78e8b · #a4a78b

#8ba79c · #9c8ba7

Split-complementary

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#8ba4a7 · #8e8ba7

#8ba78e · #8b96a7 · #a78ba4

Contrast

#a79c8b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.7:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #807360 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #605748 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.09:1)
Aaon black
7.77:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a79c8b 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

#a79c8b reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a79c8b
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 #a79c8b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a79c8b-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md