Color

#a09e98

#a09e98
hex#a09e98
rgbrgb(160, 158, 152)
hslhsl(45, 4%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.699 0.009 91.5)
Closest name: Dusky Mood (#979ba8)Relative luminance 0.3419

Colors that go with #a09e98

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 #a09e98

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#989aa0

#a09a98 · #9ea098

#98a09e · #9e98a0

Split-complementary

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#989ea0 · #9a98a0

#98a09a · #989aa0 · #a0989e

Contrast

#a09e98 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.68:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #77756e as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #5a5853 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.16:1)
Aaon black
7.84:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a09e98 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#a09e98 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a09e98
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 #a09e98 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a09e98-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md