Color

#a88a8a

#a88a8a
hex#a88a8a
rgbrgb(168, 138, 138)
hslhsl(0, 15%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.661 0.037 18.1)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2834

Colors that go with #a88a8a

Charcoal, Peru 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 #a88a8a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8aa8a8

#a88a99 · #a8998a

#8aa88a · #8a8aa8

Split-complementary

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#8aa899 · #8a99a8

#99a88a · #8aa8a8 · #998aa8

Contrast

#a88a8a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.15:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #936c6c as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #6d5050 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.62:1)
Aaon black
6.67:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ad9090 as the text (7.17:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a88a8a 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

#a88a8a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a88a8a
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 #a88a8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a88a8a-c4a19c-62cb98-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md