Color

#af8979

#af8979
hex#af8979
rgbrgb(175, 137, 121)
hslhsl(18, 25%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.662 0.052 44)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2839

Colors that go with #af8979

Charcoal, Cadet Blue 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.

Real palettes that use #af8979

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#799faf

#af7984 · #afa479

#79af89 · #8979af

Split-complementary

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#79afa4 · #7984af

#84af79 · #799faf · #a479af

Contrast

#af8979 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.15:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #966c5a as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #705043 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.5:1)
Aaon black
6.68:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b38f80 as the text (7.16:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #af8979 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

#af8979 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #af8979
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 #af8979 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/af8979-c4ad9c-62cbb8-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md