Color

#aba087

#aba087
hex#aba087
rgbrgb(171, 160, 135)
hslhsl(42, 18%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.708 0.037 87.1)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3555

Colors that go with #aba087

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 #aba087

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8792ab

#ab8e87 · #a4ab87

#87aba0 · #a087ab

Split-complementary

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#87a4ab · #8e87ab

#87ab8e · #8792ab · #ab87a4

Contrast

#aba087 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.59:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e7358 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #605743 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
8.11:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aba087 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

#aba087 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aba087
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 #aba087 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aba087-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md