Color

#a88d85

#a88d85
hex#a88d85
rgbrgb(168, 141, 133)
hslhsl(14, 17%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.666 0.035 37.1)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2907

Colors that go with #a88d85

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 #a88d85

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#85a0a8

#a8858e · #a89f85

#85a88d · #8d85a8

Split-complementary

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#85a89f · #858ea8

#8ea885 · #85a0a8 · #9f85a8

Contrast

#a88d85 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.08:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8f6f66 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #6b534c as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.59:1)
Aaon black
6.81:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #aa9088 as the text (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a88d85 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

#a88d85 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a88d85
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 #a88d85 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a88d85-c4aa9c-62cbb1-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md