Oatmeal
Open in tool →Four warm greys from bark to oat — the neutral palette that photographs well and never argues with a product shot.
Color
#af9683
#af9683
hex
#af9683rgb
rgb(175, 150, 131)hsl
hsl(26, 22%, 60%)oklch
oklch(0.69 0.04 59.3)Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.3257
Colors that go with #af9683
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #af9683: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #af9683 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Blush put Blush Pink beside #af9683, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #af9683 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #af9683, as the surface under it.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #af9683 in 6 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #af9683: 4 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Open House, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #af9683
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #af9683 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.8:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.51:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #af9683 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#af9683 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #af9683
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #af9683 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/af9683-c4b29c-62cbc5-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md