Color

#a1a49d

#a1a49d
hex#a1a49d
rgbrgb(161, 164, 157)
hslhsl(86, 4%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.714 0.011 125.7)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3656

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a09da4

#a4a49d · #9da49d

#9da1a4 · #a49da1

Split-complementary

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#9d9da4 · #a49da4

#9da4a4 · #a09da4 · #a49d9d

Contrast

#a1a49d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.53:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #73776e as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #575a53 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
8.31:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a1a49d 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

#a1a49d reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a1a49d
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 #a1a49d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a1a49d-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md