Color

#a3a899

#a3a899
hex#a3a899
rgbrgb(163, 168, 153)
hslhsl(80, 8%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.723 0.022 122)
Closest name: Moorland (#a6ab9b)Relative luminance 0.3809

Colors that go with #a3a899

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 #a3a899

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9e99a8

#a8a699 · #9ca899

#99a3a8 · #a899a3

Split-complementary

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#999ca8 · #a699a8

#99a8a6 · #9e99a8 · #a8999c

Contrast

#a3a899 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.44:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #737967 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #565b4d as the text (7:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.14:1)
Aaon black
8.62:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a3a899 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

#a3a899 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a3a899
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 #a3a899 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a3a899-b1bea2-4e64df-232d1f-f1f0e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md