Color

#aba496

#aba496
hex#aba496
rgbrgb(171, 164, 150)
hslhsl(40, 11%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.721 0.021 84.6)
Closest name: Moorland (#a6ab9b)Relative luminance 0.3741

Colors that go with #aba496

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.

Real palettes that use #aba496

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#969dab

#ab9a96 · #a8ab96

#96aba4 · #a496ab

Split-complementary

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#96a8ab · #9a96ab

#96ab9a · #969dab · #ab96a8

Contrast

#aba496 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.48:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d7464 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #5d574b as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.03:1)
Aaon black
8.48:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aba496 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

#aba496 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aba496
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 #aba496 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aba496-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md