Color

#a9a079

#a9a079
hex#a9a079
rgbrgb(169, 160, 121)
hslhsl(49, 22%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.703 0.055 96.6)
Closest name: Bonsai Garden (#9e9e7c)Relative luminance 0.3496

Colors that go with #a9a079

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 #a9a079

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#7982a9

#a98979 · #9aa979

#79a9a1 · #a179a9

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#799aa9 · #8979a9

#79a989 · #7982a9 · #a9799a

Contrast

#a9a079 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.63:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c7450 as the text (4.7:1)
  • AAA: use #5d573c as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.99:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a9a079 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

#a9a079 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9a079
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 #a9a079 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a9a079-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

Want the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.

Machine-readable: color.md