Color

#a88b8a

#a88b8a
hex#a88b8a
rgbrgb(168, 139, 138)
hslhsl(2, 15%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.663 0.035 20.4)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2863

Colors that go with #a88b8a

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #a88b8a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8aa7a8

#a88a98 · #a89a8a

#8aa88b · #8b8aa8

Split-complementary

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#8aa89a · #8a98a8

#98a88a · #8aa7a8 · #9a8aa8

Contrast

#a88b8a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.12:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #906b6a as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #6d5150 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.53:1)
Aaon black
6.73:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ad9190 as the text (7.23:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a88b8a 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

#a88b8a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a88b8a
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 #a88b8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a88b8a-c4a29c-62cb9c-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md