Color

#aaaa88

#aaaa88
hex#aaaa88
rgbrgb(170, 170, 136)
hslhsl(60, 17%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.729 0.047 107.5)
Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.3907

Colors that go with #aaaa88

Charcoal, Lilac and Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#8888aa

#aa9988 · #99aa88

#88aaaa · #aa88aa

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#8899aa · #9988aa

#88aa99 · #8888aa · #aa8899

Contrast

#aaaa88 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.38:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #777755 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #5a5a3f as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.15:1)
Aaon black
8.81:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aaaa88 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aaaa88
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 #aaaa88 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aaaa88-bbbea2-4e94df-272d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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