Color

#aa8d8f

#aa8d8f
hex#aa8d8f
rgbrgb(170, 141, 143)
hslhsl(356, 15%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.671 0.035 13.4)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.2958

Colors that go with #aa8d8f

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 #aa8d8f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8daaa8

#aa8d9e · #aa9a8d

#8faa8d · #8d8faa

Split-complementary

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#8daa9a · #8d9eaa

#9eaa8d · #8daaa8 · #9a8daa

Contrast

#aa8d8f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.04:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #936c6f as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #6d5052 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.66:1)
Aaon black
6.92:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ad9092 as the text (7.18:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa8d8f 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

#aa8d8f reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa8d8f
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 #aa8d8f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa8d8f-c49e9c-62cb91-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md