Color

#a89d8a

#a89d8a
hex#a89d8a
rgbrgb(168, 157, 138)
hslhsl(38, 15%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.7 0.03 81.4)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3427

Colors that go with #a89d8a

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 #a89d8a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8a95a8

#a88e8a · #a4a88a

#8aa89d · #9d8aa8

Split-complementary

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#8aa4a8 · #8e8aa8

#8aa88e · #8a95a8 · #a88aa4

Contrast

#a89d8a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.67:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #81755f as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #615848 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.85:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a89d8a as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#a89d8a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a89d8a
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 #a89d8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a89d8a-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md