Color

#a0a38f

#a0a38f
hex#a0a38f
rgbrgb(160, 163, 143)
hslhsl(69, 10%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.707 0.029 114.1)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3565

Colors that go with #a0a38f

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 #a0a38f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#928fa3

#a39c8f · #96a38f

#8fa0a3 · #a38fa0

Split-complementary

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#8f96a3 · #9c8fa3

#8fa39c · #928fa3 · #a38f96

Contrast

#a0a38f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.58:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #737660 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #575a49 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.13:1)
Aaon black
8.13:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a0a38f 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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a0a38f
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 #a0a38f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a0a38f-b7bea2-4e7edf-252d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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