Color

#aa888b

#aa888b
hex#aa888b
rgbrgb(170, 136, 139)
hslhsl(355, 17%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.659 0.042 12.3)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.2802

Colors that go with #aa888b

Charcoal, Peru 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 #aa888b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#88aaa7

#aa889c · #aa9688

#8baa88 · #888baa

Split-complementary

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#88aa96 · #889caa

#9caa88 · #88aaa7 · #9688aa

Contrast

#aa888b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.18:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #956a6d as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #715053 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.57:1)
Aaon black
6.6:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #af8e90 as the text (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa888b 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

#aa888b reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa888b
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 #aa888b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa888b-c49e9c-62cb8f-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md