Color

#aa8d8d

#aa8d8d
hex#aa8d8d
rgbrgb(170, 141, 141)
hslhsl(0, 15%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.67 0.035 18.1)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.2952

Colors that go with #aa8d8d

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #aa8d8d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8daaaa

#aa8d9c · #aa9c8d

#8daa8d · #8d8daa

Split-complementary

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#8daa9c · #8d9caa

#9caa8d · #8daaaa · #9c8daa

Contrast

#aa8d8d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.04:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #936c6c as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #6d5050 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.65:1)
Aaon black
6.9:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ad9090 as the text (7.17:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa8d8d 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

#aa8d8d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa8d8d
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 #aa8d8d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa8d8d-c4a19c-62cb98-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md