Oatmeal
Open in tool →Four warm greys from bark to oat — the neutral palette that photographs well and never argues with a product shot.
Color
#ab978c
#ab978c
hex
#ab978crgb
rgb(171, 151, 140)hsl
hsl(21, 16%, 61%)oklch
oklch(0.691 0.029 50.7)Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.3268
Colors that go with #ab978c
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #ab978c without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #ab978c, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #ab978c in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bramble put Champagne beside #ab978c, as the surface under it.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #ab978c in 6 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ab978c: 4 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Open House, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #ab978c: 4 real palettes, including Spline's brand system and Studio Grey, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #ab978c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ab978c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.79:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.54:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #ab978c as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#ab978c reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ab978c
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #ab978c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ab978c-c4af9c-62cbbd-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md