Color

#aa8a7d

#aa8a7d
hex#aa8a7d
rgbrgb(170, 138, 125)
hslhsl(17, 21%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.66 0.044 43.3)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.282

Colors that go with #aa8a7d

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 #aa8a7d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7d9eaa

#aa7d87 · #aaa17d

#7daa8a · #8a7daa

Split-complementary

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#7daaa1 · #7d87aa

#87aa7d · #7d9eaa · #a17daa

Contrast

#aa8a7d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.16:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #916d5f as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #6c5147 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.6:1)
Aaon black
6.64:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ae9084 as the text (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa8a7d 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

#aa8a7d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa8a7d
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 #aa8a7d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa8a7d-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md