Color

#a89a71

#a89a71
hex#a89a71
rgbrgb(168, 154, 113)
hslhsl(45, 24%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.688 0.059 91.4)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3263

Colors that go with #a89a71

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#717ea8

#a87e71 · #9aa871

#71a89a · #9a71a8

Split-complementary

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#719aa8 · #7e71a8

#71a87e · #717ea8 · #a8719a

Contrast

#a89a71 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.79:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #82754f as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #5f563a as the text (7.29:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.09:1)
Aaon black
7.53:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a89a71 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

#a89a71 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a89a71
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 #a89a71 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a89a71-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md