Color

#a29290

#a29290
hex#a29290
rgbrgb(162, 146, 144)
hslhsl(7, 9%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.673 0.019 26.2)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3025

Colors that go with #a29290

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 #a29290

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#90a0a2

#a29097 · #a29b90

#90a292 · #9290a2

Split-complementary

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#90a29b · #9097a2

#97a290 · #90a0a2 · #9b90a2

Contrast

#a29290 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.98:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #85726f as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #645554 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.05:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a29290 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

#a29290 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a29290
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 #a29290 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a29290-c4a59c-62cba4-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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