Color

#a98b6a

#a98b6a
hex#a98b6a
rgbrgb(169, 139, 106)
hslhsl(31, 27%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.656 0.059 69.2)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2794

Colors that go with #a98b6a

Charcoal, Cornflower 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 #a98b6a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6a89a9

#a96b6a · #a8a96a

#6aa98b · #8b6aa9

Split-complementary

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#6aa8a9 · #6b6aa9

#6aa96b · #6a89a9 · #a96aa8

Contrast

#a98b6a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.19:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8e7152 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #6b553d as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.56:1)
Aaon black
6.59:1passpassfail

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a98b6a 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

#a98b6a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a98b6a
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 #a98b6a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a98b6a-c4b59c-62c7cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md