Color

#aa857d

#aa857d
hex#aa857d
rgbrgb(170, 133, 125)
hslhsl(11, 21%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.65 0.047 32.4)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.268

Colors that go with #aa857d

Charcoal, Cadet 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 #aa857d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7da2aa

#aa7d8c · #aa9c7d

#7daa86 · #867daa

Split-complementary

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#7daa9c · #7d8caa

#8caa7d · #7da2aa · #9c7daa

Contrast

#aa857d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.3:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #976c63 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #6f5049 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.58:1)
Aaon black
6.36:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b08e87 as the text (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa857d 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

#aa857d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa857d
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 #aa857d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa857d-c4a89c-62cbab-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md