Color

#a39999

#a39999
hex#a39999
rgbrgb(163, 153, 153)
hslhsl(0, 5%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.692 0.012 17.4)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3287

Colors that go with #a39999

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.

Real palettes that use #a39999

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#99a3a3

#a3999e · #a39e99

#99a399 · #9999a3

Split-complementary

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#99a39e · #999ea3

#9ea399 · #99a3a3 · #9e99a3

Contrast

#a39999 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.77:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e7272 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #605757 as the text (7:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.57:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a39999 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

#a39999 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a39999
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 #a39999 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a39999-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md