Color

#aba787

#aba787
hex#aba787
rgbrgb(171, 167, 135)
hslhsl(53, 18%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.723 0.045 101.5)
Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.3804

Colors that go with #aba787

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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#878bab

#ab9587 · #9dab87

#87aba7 · #a787ab

Split-complementary

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#879dab · #9587ab

#87ab95 · #878bab · #ab879d

Contrast

#aba787 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.44:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b7756 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #5a573f as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.13:1)
Aaon black
8.61:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aba787 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

#aba787 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aba787
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 #aba787 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aba787-c4c49c-4ea5df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md