Color

#ab9973

#ab9973
hex#ab9973
rgbrgb(171, 153, 115)
hslhsl(41, 25%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.689 0.057 85.5)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3268

Colors that go with #ab9973

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue 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 #ab9973

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7385ab

#ab7d73 · #a1ab73

#73ab99 · #9973ab

Split-complementary

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#73a1ab · #7d73ab

#73ab7d · #7385ab · #ab73a1

Contrast

#ab9973 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.79:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #83724e as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #63563b as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.1:1)
Aaon black
7.54:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ab9973 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

#ab9973 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ab9973
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 #ab9973 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ab9973-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md