Color

#aba59b

#aba59b
hex#aba59b
rgbrgb(171, 165, 155)
hslhsl(38, 9%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.724 0.016 80.7)
Closest name: Moorland (#a6ab9b)Relative luminance 0.3793

Colors that go with #aba59b

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 #aba59b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9ba1ab

#ab9d9b · #a9ab9b

#9baba5 · #a59bab

Split-complementary

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#9ba9ab · #9d9bab

#9bab9d · #9ba1ab · #ab9ba9

Contrast

#aba59b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.45:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d7668 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #5c564d as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.12:1)
Aaon black
8.59:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aba59b 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

#aba59b reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aba59b
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 #aba59b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aba59b-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md