Color

#a9906a

#a9906a
hex#a9906a
rgbrgb(169, 144, 106)
hslhsl(36, 27%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.667 0.06 77.8)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2942

Colors that go with #a9906a

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 #a9906a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6a83a9

#a9706a · #a3a96a

#6aa990 · #906aa9

Split-complementary

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#6aa3a9 · #706aa9

#6aa970 · #6a83a9 · #a96aa3

Contrast

#a9906a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.05:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #88714e as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #68563c as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.64:1)
Aaon black
6.88:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ab926d as the text (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a9906a 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

#a9906a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9906a
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 #a9906a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a9906a-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md