Color

#aa9b8d

#aa9b8d
hex#aa9b8d
rgbrgb(170, 155, 141)
hslhsl(29, 15%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.699 0.027 65.4)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3391

Colors that go with #aa9b8d

Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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 #aa9b8d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8d9caa

#aa8d8d · #aaaa8d

#8daa9b · #9b8daa

Split-complementary

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#8daaaa · #8d8daa

#8daa8d · #8d9caa · #aa8daa

Contrast

#aa9b8d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.7:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #847262 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #64564a as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.1:1)
Aaon black
7.78:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa9b8d 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

#aa9b8d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa9b8d
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 #aa9b8d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa9b8d-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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