Color

#aaa088

#aaa088
hex#aaa088
rgbrgb(170, 160, 136)
hslhsl(42, 17%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.708 0.036 88.1)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3547

Colors that go with #aaa088

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 #aaa088

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8892aa

#aa8f88 · #a3aa88

#88aaa0 · #a088aa

Split-complementary

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#88a3aa · #8f88aa

#88aa8f · #8892aa · #aa88a3

Contrast

#aaa088 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.59:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #80755b as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5744 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
8.09:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aaa088 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

#aaa088 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aaa088
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 #aaa088 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aaa088-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md