Color

#aba273

#aba273
hex#aba273
rgbrgb(171, 162, 115)
hslhsl(50, 25%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.708 0.065 98.6)
Closest name: Cardamom (#aaaa77)Relative luminance 0.3574

Colors that go with #aba273

Charcoal, Lilac and Blue 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 #aba273

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#737cab

#ab8573 · #98ab73

#73aba2 · #a273ab

Split-complementary

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#7398ab · #8573ab

#73ab85 · #737cab · #ab7398

Contrast

#aba273 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.58:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #80774d as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #605939 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.15:1)
Aaon black
8.15:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aba273 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#aba273 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aba273
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 #aba273 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aba273-c4c29c-4eacdf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md