Color

#a38a97

#a38a97
hex#a38a97
rgbrgb(163, 138, 151)
hslhsl(329, 12%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.66 0.035 345.4)
Closest name: Hatoba Pigeon (#95859c)Relative luminance 0.282

Colors that go with #a38a97

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 #a38a97

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8aa396

#a38aa3 · #a38a8a

#97a38a · #8a97a3

Split-complementary

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#8aa38a · #8aa3a3

#a3a38a · #8aa396 · #8a8aa3

Contrast

#a38a97 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.16:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8c6e7d as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #67515c as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.6:1)
Aaon black
6.64:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a7909c as the text (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a38a97 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

#a38a97 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a38a97
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 #a38a97 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a38a97-c49cac-62cb62-2d1f21-f1e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md