Color

#a88280

#a88280
hex#a88280
rgbrgb(168, 130, 128)
hslhsl(3, 19%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.642 0.047 21.9)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2585

Colors that go with #a88280

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 #a88280

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#80a6a8

#a88092 · #a89680

#80a882 · #8280a8

Split-complementary

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#80a896 · #8092a8

#92a880 · #80a6a8 · #9680a8

Contrast

#a88280 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.4:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #986a67 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #73504e as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.56:1)
Aaon black
6.17:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b18e8c as the text (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a88280 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

#a88280 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a88280
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 #a88280 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a88280-c4a39c-62cb9d-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md