Color

#a98a84

#a98a84
hex#a98a84
rgbrgb(169, 138, 132)
hslhsl(10, 18%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.66 0.039 30.9)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2828

Colors that go with #a98a84

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 #a98a84

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#84a3a9

#a98490 · #a99d84

#84a98a · #8a84a9

Split-complementary

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#84a99d · #8490a9

#90a984 · #84a3a9 · #9d84a9

Contrast

#a98a84 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.16:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #936e66 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #6c514b as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.61:1)
Aaon black
6.66:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ad908a as the text (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a98a84 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

#a98a84 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a98a84
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 #a98a84 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a98a84-c4a79c-62cbaa-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md