Color

#afa49d

#afa49d
hex#afa49d
rgbrgb(175, 164, 157)
hslhsl(23, 10%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.726 0.016 54.8)
Closest name: Cathedral (#acaaa7)Relative luminance 0.381

Colors that go with #afa49d

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 #afa49d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9da8af

#af9d9f · #afad9d

#9dafa4 · #a49daf

Split-complementary

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#9dafad · #9d9faf

#9faf9d · #9da8af · #ad9daf

Contrast

#afa49d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.44:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #81736a as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #625750 as the text (7:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.14:1)
Aaon black
8.62:1passpasspassPasses 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 #afa49d 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

#afa49d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #afa49d
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 #afa49d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/afa49d-c4b09c-62cbc0-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md