Color

#ab816d

#ab816d
hex#ab816d
rgbrgb(171, 129, 109)
hslhsl(19, 27%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.639 0.06 46.6)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2546

Colors that go with #ab816d

Cadet Blue, Charcoal 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 #ab816d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6d98ab

#ab6d79 · #aba06d

#6dab81 · #816dab

Split-complementary

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#6daba0 · #6d79ab

#79ab6d · #6d98ab · #a06dab

Contrast

#ab816d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.45:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #986c57 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #715041 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.5:1)
Aaon black
6.09:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b58f7d as the text (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ab816d as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Fonts for this mood

#ab816d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ab816d
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 #ab816d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ab816d-c4ad9c-62cbb9-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md