Color

#a09296

#a09296
hex#a09296
rgbrgb(160, 146, 150)
hslhsl(343, 7%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.673 0.018 358.3)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3023

Colors that go with #a09296

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 #a09296

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#92a09c

#a0929d · #a09592

#96a092 · #9296a0

Split-complementary

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#92a095 · #929da0

#9da092 · #92a09c · #9592a0

Contrast

#a09296 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.98:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #837277 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #625559 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.05:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a09296 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

#a09296 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a09296
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 #a09296 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a09296-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md