Color
#a96866
#a96866rgb(169, 104, 102)hsl(2, 28%, 53%)oklch(0.588 0.084 21.8)Colors that go with #a96866
Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Champagne 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a96866: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #a96866: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #a96866, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a96866 in 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Magazine Ochre, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a96866: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Dyson's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a96866 in 5 real palettes, including Bookshop and Desert Road, as the accent.
Orange #ffa500
shipped4 real palettes, including Graphite and Sunset Boulevard put Orange beside #a96866, as the accent.
Dark Cyan #008b8b
complementaryDark Cyan sits directly opposite #a96866 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #a96866
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a96866 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.32:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.86:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a96866 as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#a96866 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #a96866 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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