Graphite
Open in tool →A greyscale system with a single amber — the accent does all the work, so allow one per screen.
Color
#a29aa0
#a29aa0
hex
#a29aa0rgb
rgb(162, 154, 160)hsl
hsl(315, 4%, 62%)oklch
oklch(0.695 0.013 334.2)Closest name: Dusky Mood (#979ba8)Relative luminance 0.3333
Colors that go with #a29aa0
Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #a29aa0 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #a29aa0 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Polaroid, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #a29aa0, as the surface under it.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a29aa0 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a29aa0: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a29aa0 in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Pine & Birch, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #a29aa0, as the text colour against it.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a29aa0 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.74:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.67:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #a29aa0 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
#a29aa0 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a29aa0
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #a29aa0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a29aa0-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md