Color

#a0989c

#a0989c
hex#a0989c
rgbrgb(160, 152, 156)
hslhsl(330, 4%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.688 0.011 345.6)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3233

Colors that go with #a0989c

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 #a0989c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#98a09c

#a098a0 · #a09898

#9ca098 · #989ca0

Split-complementary

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#98a098 · #98a0a0

#a0a098 · #98a09c · #9898a0

Contrast

#a0989c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.81:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d7378 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #5d5659 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.47:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a0989c 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

#a0989c reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a0989c
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 #a0989c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a0989c-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md