Color

#ab9969

#ab9969
hex#ab9969
rgbrgb(171, 153, 105)
hslhsl(44, 28%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.687 0.068 89.8)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3246

Colors that go with #ab9969

Charcoal, Cornflower 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 #ab9969

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#697aab

#ab7869 · #9bab69

#69ab99 · #9969ab

Split-complementary

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#699bab · #7869ab

#69ab78 · #697aab · #ab699b

Contrast

#ab9969 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.8:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #837349 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #625637 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.06:1)
Aaon black
7.49:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ab9969 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

#ab9969 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ab9969
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 #ab9969 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ab9969-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md