Color

#aa9f8d

#aa9f8d
hex#aa9f8d
rgbrgb(170, 159, 141)
hslhsl(37, 15%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.707 0.029 80.2)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3527

Colors that go with #aa9f8d

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 #aa9f8d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8d98aa

#aa908d · #a7aa8d

#8daa9f · #9f8daa

Split-complementary

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#8da7aa · #908daa

#8daa90 · #8d98aa · #aa8da7

Contrast

#aa9f8d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.61:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #81745f as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #615748 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
8.05:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aa9f8d 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

#aa9f8d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa9f8d
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 #aa9f8d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa9f8d-c4b99c-62bdcb-2c2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md