Color
#a97585
#a97585rgb(169, 117, 133)hsl(342, 23%, 56%)oklch(0.62 0.069 359.2)Colors that go with #a97585
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 #a97585: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #a97585 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #a97585, as that palette's text colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #a97585, as the lead colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #a97585: 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Bakery, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #a97585: 4 real palettes, including Graphite and Homestead, as the lead colour.
Tan #d2b48c
shippedTan is paired with #a97585 in 4 real palettes, including Mushroom and Sepia Mono, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #a97585 in 24 real palettes, including Typewriter and Mushroom, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #a97585
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a97585 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.77:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.57:1 | 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 #a97585 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
#a97585 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 #a97585 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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