Color
#ab495b
#ab495brgb(171, 73, 91)hsl(349, 40%, 48%)oklch(0.538 0.129 11.2)Colors that go with #ab495b
Dark Olive Green, Teal and Champagne 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.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
triadicshippedDark Olive Green completes a triad with #ab495b — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #ab495b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #ab495b in 4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #ab495b in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Trailhead, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Orange #ffa500
shippedOrange is paired with #ab495b in 4 real palettes, including Sunset Boulevard and Rippling's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #ab495b in 5 real palettes, including Typewriter and Noir Beauty, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #ab495b: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ab495b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #ab495b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ab495b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.47:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.84:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ab495b as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#ab495b reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #ab495b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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