Color

#a88180

#a88180
hex#a88180
rgbrgb(168, 129, 128)
hslhsl(1, 19%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.64 0.048 20.2)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2558

Colors that go with #a88180

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 #a88180

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#80a8a8

#a88093 · #a89580

#80a880 · #8080a8

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#80a895 · #8093a8

#93a880 · #80a8a8 · #9580a8

Contrast

#a88180 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.43:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #986867 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #734f4e as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.52:1)
Aaon black
6.12:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b38f8f as the text (7.24:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a88180 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

#a88180 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a88180
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 #a88180 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a88180-c4a19c-62cb9a-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

Want the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.

Machine-readable: color.md