Color

#a0989e

#a0989e
hex#a0989e
rgbrgb(160, 152, 158)
hslhsl(315, 4%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.688 0.013 334.2)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.324

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#98a09a

#9e98a0 · #a0989a

#9ea098 · #989ea0

Split-complementary

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#9aa098 · #98a09e

#a09e98 · #98a09a · #989aa0

Contrast

#a0989e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.81:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d737a as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #5d565b as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.48:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a0989e 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

#a0989e reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a0989e
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a0989e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a0989e-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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