Color

#a89e85

#a89e85
hex#a89e85
rgbrgb(168, 158, 133)
hslhsl(43, 17%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.701 0.037 88.8)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3447

Colors that go with #a89e85

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue 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 #a89e85

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#858fa8

#a88c85 · #a1a885

#85a89e · #9e85a8

Split-complementary

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#85a1a8 · #8c85a8

#85a88c · #858fa8 · #a885a1

Contrast

#a89e85 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.66:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #80765b as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5844 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.89:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a89e85 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

#a89e85 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a89e85
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 #a89e85 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a89e85-c4bd9c-62b2cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md