Color

#aa838b

#aa838b
hex#aa838b
rgbrgb(170, 131, 139)
hslhsl(348, 19%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.65 0.049 4.8)
Closest name: Hatoba Pigeon (#95859c)Relative luminance 0.2664

Colors that go with #aa838b

Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 #aa838b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#83aaa2

#aa839e · #aa8f83

#8baa83 · #838baa

Split-complementary

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#83aa8f · #839eaa

#9eaa83 · #83aaa2 · #8f83aa

Contrast

#aa838b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.32:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #986771 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #734e56 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.56:1)
Aaon black
6.33:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b18c93 as the text (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa838b 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

#aa838b reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa838b
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 #aa838b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa838b-c49c9f-62cb83-2d231f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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