Color

#ab8f87

#ab8f87
hex#ab8f87
rgbrgb(171, 143, 135)
hslhsl(13, 18%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.673 0.036 36.5)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.3005

Colors that go with #ab8f87

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #ab8f87

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#87a3ab

#ab8791 · #aba187

#87ab8f · #8f87ab

Split-complementary

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#87aba1 · #8791ab

#91ab87 · #87a3ab · #a187ab

Contrast

#ab8f87 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #906e64 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #6c524b as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.01:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ab8f87 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

#ab8f87 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ab8f87
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 #ab8f87 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ab8f87-c4a99c-62cbaf-2d281f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md