Color

#a99b79

#a99b79
hex#a99b79
rgbrgb(169, 155, 121)
hslhsl(42, 22%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.693 0.05 88.3)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3326

Colors that go with #a99b79

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 #a99b79

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7988a9

#a98379 · #a0a979

#79a99b · #9b79a9

Split-complementary

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#79a0a9 · #8379a9

#79a983 · #7988a9 · #a979a0

Contrast

#a99b79 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.74:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #837554 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #60563e as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.65:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a99b79 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

#a99b79 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a99b79
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 #a99b79 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a99b79-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md