Color

#a9786a

#a9786a
hex#a9786a
rgbrgb(169, 120, 106)
hslhsl(13, 27%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.618 0.065 36.6)
Closest name: Amaretto (#ab6f60)Relative luminance 0.2291

Colors that go with #a9786a

Cadet Blue, Charcoal 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.

Real palettes that use #a9786a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6a9ca9

#a96a7c · #a9976a

#6aa978 · #786aa9

Split-complementary

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#6aa997 · #6a7ca9

#7ca96a · #6a9ca9 · #976aa9

Contrast

#a9786a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.76:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9b6859 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #754e43 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (4.53:1)
Aaon black
5.58:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b68c81 as the text (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a9786a 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

#a9786a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9786a
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 #a9786a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a9786a-c4a99c-62cbaf-2d281f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md