Color

#a98779

#a98779
hex#a98779
rgbrgb(169, 135, 121)
hslhsl(18, 22%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.652 0.047 43.5)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2714

Colors that go with #a98779

Charcoal, Cadet 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 #a98779

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#799ba9

#a97983 · #a9a079

#79a988 · #8879a9

Split-complementary

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#79a9a0 · #7983a9

#83a979 · #799ba9 · #a079a9

Contrast

#a98779 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.27:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #926d5d as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #6d5146 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.63:1)
Aaon black
6.43:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #af9083 as the text (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a98779 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

#a98779 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a98779
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 #a98779 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a98779-c4ad9c-62cbb8-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md