Color

#a9986a

#a9986a
hex#a9986a
rgbrgb(169, 152, 106)
hslhsl(44, 27%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.683 0.066 90.1)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3193

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6a7ba9

#a9796a · #9ba96a

#6aa998 · #986aa9

Split-complementary

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#6a9ba9 · #796aa9

#6aa979 · #6a7ba9 · #a96a9b

Contrast

#a9986a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.84:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #82734a as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #615638 as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.04:1)
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 #a9986a 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

#a9986a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9986a
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a9986a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a9986a-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md