Color

#aa9d83

#aa9d83
hex#aa9d83
rgbrgb(170, 157, 131)
hslhsl(40, 19%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.7 0.04 84.5)
Closest name: Bonsai Garden (#9e9e7c)Relative luminance 0.343

Colors that go with #aa9d83

Charcoal, Cornflower 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 #aa9d83

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8390aa

#aa8983 · #a4aa83

#83aa9d · #9d83aa

Split-complementary

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#83a4aa · #8983aa

#83aa89 · #8390aa · #aa83a4

Contrast

#aa9d83 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.67:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #827559 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #615742 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.86:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aa9d83 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

#aa9d83 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa9d83
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 #aa9d83 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa9d83-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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