Color

#a88171

#a88171
hex#a88171
rgbrgb(168, 129, 113)
hslhsl(17, 24%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.637 0.054 43.4)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2522

Colors that go with #a88171

Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Blush Pink 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 #a88171

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#7198a8

#a8717d · #a89c71

#71a880 · #8071a8

Split-complementary

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#71a89c · #717da8

#7da871 · #7198a8 · #9c71a8

Contrast

#a88171 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.47:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #956b5b as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #6f5044 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.63:1)
Aaon black
6.04:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b18e81 as the text (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a88171 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

#a88171 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a88171
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 #a88171 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a88171-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md