Color

#a0989f

#a0989f
hex#a0989f
rgbrgb(160, 152, 159)
hslhsl(308, 4%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.689 0.014 329.6)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3243

Colors that go with #a0989f

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 #a0989f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#98a099

#9d98a0 · #a0989a

#9ea098 · #989ea0

Split-complementary

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#9aa098 · #98a09d

#a09d98 · #98a099 · #989aa0

Contrast

#a0989f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.8:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d737b as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #5d565c as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.06:1)
Aaon black
7.49:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a0989f 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

#a0989f reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a0989f
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 #a0989f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a0989f-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md