Color

#a8a17a

#a8a17a
hex#a8a17a
rgbrgb(168, 161, 122)
hslhsl(51, 21%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.705 0.054 99.1)
Closest name: Bonsai Garden (#9e9e7c)Relative luminance 0.3522

Colors that go with #a8a17a

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Blue 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 #a8a17a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7a81a8

#a88a7a · #98a87a

#7aa8a1 · #a17aa8

Split-complementary

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#7a98a8 · #8a7aa8

#7aa88a · #7a81a8 · #a87a98

Contrast

#a8a17a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.61:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b7551 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #5d583c as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
8.04:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8a17a 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

#a8a17a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8a17a
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 #a8a17a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8a17a-c4c29c-4eaadf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md