Color

#ab8382

#ab8382
hex#ab8382
rgbrgb(171, 131, 130)
hslhsl(1, 20%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.648 0.05 20.2)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.265

Colors that go with #ab8382

Charcoal, Cadet 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 #ab8382

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#82abab

#ab8296 · #ab9782

#82ab82 · #8282ab

Split-complementary

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#82ab97 · #8296ab

#96ab82 · #82abab · #9782ab

Contrast

#ab8382 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.33:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9b6a69 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #744e4e as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.54:1)
Aaon black
6.3:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b48e8e as the text (7.2:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ab8382 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

#ab8382 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ab8382
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 #ab8382 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ab8382-c4a19c-62cb9a-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md