Color

#afa874

#afa874
hex#afa874
rgbrgb(175, 168, 116)
hslhsl(53, 27%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.725 0.071 101.4)
Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.3838

Colors that go with #afa874

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Lilac 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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#747baf

#af8a74 · #98af74

#74afa8 · #a874af

Split-complementary

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#7498af · #8a74af

#74af8a · #747baf · #af7498

Contrast

#afa874 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.42:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b7547 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #5e5936 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.04:1)
Aaon black
8.68:1passpasspassPasses 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 #afa874 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#afa874 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #afa874
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 #afa874 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/afa874-c4c49c-4ea5df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md