Color

#a99870

#a99870
hex#a99870
rgbrgb(169, 152, 112)
hslhsl(42, 25%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.685 0.059 87.6)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3206

Colors that go with #a99870

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7081a9

#a97b70 · #9da970

#70a998 · #9870a9

Split-complementary

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#709da9 · #7b70a9

#70a97b · #7081a9 · #a9709d

Contrast

#a99870 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.83:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #83734e as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #63573b as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.41:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a99870 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

#a99870 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a99870
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 #a99870 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a99870-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md