Color

#a98970

#a98970
hex#a98970
rgbrgb(169, 137, 112)
hslhsl(26, 25%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.653 0.053 59.7)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.275

Colors that go with #a98970

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 #a98970

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7090a9

#a97073 · #a9a570

#70a988 · #8870a9

Split-complementary

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#70a9a5 · #7073a9

#73a970 · #7090a9 · #a570a9

Contrast

#a98970 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.23:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8f6f56 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #6c5441 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.5:1)
Aaon black
6.5:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #af9079 as the text (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a98970 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

#a98970 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a98970
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 #a98970 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a98970-c4b29c-62cbc5-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md