Color

#aa9d8d

#aa9d8d
hex#aa9d8d
rgbrgb(170, 157, 141)
hslhsl(33, 15%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.703 0.027 73.1)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3458

Colors that go with #aa9d8d

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 #aa9d8d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8d9aaa

#aa8e8d · #a9aa8d

#8daa9d · #9d8daa

Split-complementary

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#8da9aa · #8e8daa

#8daa8e · #8d9aaa · #aa8da9

Contrast

#aa9d8d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.65:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #847462 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #615548 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
7.92:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aa9d8d 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

#aa9d8d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa9d8d
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 #aa9d8d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa9d8d-c4b79c-62c4cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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