Color

#ab8478

#ab8478
hex#ab8478
rgbrgb(171, 132, 120)
hslhsl(14, 23%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.647 0.052 37.8)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2652

Colors that go with #ab8478

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 #ab8478

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#789fab

#ab7886 · #ab9d78

#78ab84 · #8478ab

Split-complementary

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#78ab9d · #7886ab

#86ab78 · #789fab · #9d78ab

Contrast

#ab8478 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.33:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #976b5e as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #715147 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.54:1)
Aaon black
6.3:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b28f85 as the text (7.16:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ab8478 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

#ab8478 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ab8478
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 #ab8478 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ab8478-c4aa9c-62cbb1-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md