Color

#a98a89

#a98a89
hex#a98a89
rgbrgb(169, 138, 137)
hslhsl(2, 16%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.662 0.038 20.3)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2842

Colors that go with #a98a89

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #a98a89

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#89a8a9

#a98998 · #a99a89

#89a98a · #8a89a9

Split-complementary

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#89a99a · #8998a9

#98a989 · #89a8a9 · #9a89a9

Contrast

#a98a89 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.14:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #946c6b as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #6d504f as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.51:1)
Aaon black
6.68:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ae908f as the text (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a98a89 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

#a98a89 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a98a89
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 #a98a89 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a98a89-c4a29c-62cb9c-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md