Color

#a99879

#a99879
hex#a99879
rgbrgb(169, 152, 121)
hslhsl(39, 22%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.686 0.048 82.5)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3227

Colors that go with #a99879

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 #a99879

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#798aa9

#a98079 · #a2a979

#79a999 · #9979a9

Split-complementary

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#79a2a9 · #8079a9

#79a980 · #798aa9 · #a979a2

Contrast

#a99879 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.82:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #837254 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #645740 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.45:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a99879 as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#a99879 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a99879
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 #a99879 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a99879-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md