Color

#afa997

#afa997
hex#afa997
rgbrgb(175, 169, 151)
hslhsl(45, 13%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.735 0.026 91.7)
Closest name: Moorland (#a6ab9b)Relative luminance 0.3972

Colors that go with #afa997

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Champagne 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 #afa997

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#979daf

#af9d97 · #a9af97

#97afa9 · #a997af

Split-complementary

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#97a9af · #9d97af

#97af9d · #979daf · #af97a9

Contrast

#afa997 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.35:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c755f as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #5c5747 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.02:1)
Aaon black
8.94:1passpasspassPasses 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 #afa997 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

#afa997 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #afa997
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 #afa997 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/afa997-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md