Color

#aba687

#aba687
hex#aba687
rgbrgb(171, 166, 135)
hslhsl(52, 18%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.721 0.043 99.8)
Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.3768

Colors that go with #aba687

Charcoal, Lilac 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#878cab

#ab9487 · #9eab87

#87aba6 · #a687ab

Split-complementary

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#879eab · #9487ab

#87ab94 · #878cab · #ab879e

Contrast

#aba687 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.46:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b7656 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #5d5941 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.07:1)
Aaon black
8.54:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aba687 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#aba687 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aba687
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 #aba687 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aba687-c4c39c-4ea7df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md