Color

#a29896

#a29896
hex#a29896
rgbrgb(162, 152, 150)
hslhsl(10, 6%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.688 0.012 31.1)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3234

Colors that go with #a29896

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 #a29896

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#96a0a2

#a2969a · #a29e96

#96a298 · #9896a2

Split-complementary

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#96a29e · #969aa2

#9aa296 · #96a0a2 · #9e96a2

Contrast

#a29896 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.81:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f7371 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5654 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.47:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a29896 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

#a29896 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a29896
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 #a29896 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a29896-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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