Color

#aa8b6e

#aa8b6e
hex#aa8b6e
rgbrgb(170, 139, 110)
hslhsl(29, 26%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.658 0.056 64.7)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2814

Colors that go with #aa8b6e

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 #aa8b6e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6e8daa

#aa6e6f · #aaa96e

#6eaa8b · #8b6eaa

Split-complementary

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#6eaaa9 · #6e6faa

#6faa6e · #6e8daa · #a96eaa

Contrast

#aa8b6e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.17:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8d6f53 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #6a533e as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.59:1)
Aaon black
6.63:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ae9075 as the text (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa8b6e as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#aa8b6e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa8b6e
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 #aa8b6e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa8b6e-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md