Color

#a88a8d

#a88a8d
hex#a88a8d
rgbrgb(168, 138, 141)
hslhsl(354, 15%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.662 0.037 11.3)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.2842

Colors that go with #a88a8d

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 #a88a8d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8aa8a5

#a88a9c · #a8968a

#8da88a · #8a8da8

Split-complementary

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#8aa896 · #8a9ca8

#9ca88a · #8aa8a5 · #968aa8

Contrast

#a88a8d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.14:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #936c70 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #6d5053 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.51:1)
Aaon black
6.68:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ad9092 as the text (7.18:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a88a8d 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

#a88a8d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a88a8d
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 #a88a8d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a88a8d-c49d9c-62cb8e-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md