Color

#aba569

#aba569
hex#aba569
rgbrgb(171, 165, 105)
hslhsl(55, 28%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.713 0.08 103.3)
Closest name: Cardamom (#aaaa77)Relative luminance 0.3659

Colors that go with #aba569

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Lilac 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 #aba569

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#696eab

#ab8469 · #8fab69

#69aba5 · #a569ab

Split-complementary

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#698fab · #8469ab

#69ab84 · #696eab · #ab698f

Contrast

#aba569 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.52:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c7846 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #5b5833 as the text (7.27:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
8.32:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aba569 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

#aba569 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aba569
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 #aba569 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aba569-bdbea2-4ea0df-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md