Color

#ab8e73

#ab8e73
hex#ab8e73
rgbrgb(171, 142, 115)
hslhsl(29, 25%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.666 0.052 64.7)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2924

Colors that go with #ab8e73

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 #ab8e73

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7390ab

#ab7374 · #abaa73

#73ab8e · #8e73ab

Split-complementary

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#73abaa · #7374ab

#74ab73 · #7390ab · #aa73ab

Contrast

#ab8e73 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.07:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8c6f54 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #69533f as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.62:1)
Aaon black
6.85:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ad9076 as the text (7.03:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ab8e73 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ab8e73 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ab8e73
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 #ab8e73 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ab8e73-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md