Color

#a99779

#a99779
hex#a99779
rgbrgb(169, 151, 121)
hslhsl(38, 22%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.684 0.047 80.4)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3195

Colors that go with #a99779

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue 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 #a99779

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#798ba9

#a98079 · #a3a979

#79a998 · #9879a9

Split-complementary

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#79a3a9 · #8079a9

#79a980 · #798ba9 · #a979a3

Contrast

#a99779 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.84:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #867456 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #645640 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.39:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a99779 as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#a99779 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a99779
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 #a99779 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a99779-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md