Color

#a3aa8d

#a3aa8d
hex#a3aa8d
rgbrgb(163, 170, 141)
hslhsl(74, 15%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.724 0.041 118.5)
Closest name: Sage Green (#9caf88)Relative luminance 0.3846

Colors that go with #a3aa8d

Charcoal, Lilac and Blue 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 #a3aa8d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#948daa

#aaa38d · #95aa8d

#8da4aa · #aa8da4

Split-complementary

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#8d95aa · #a38daa

#8daaa3 · #948daa · #aa8d95

Contrast

#a3aa8d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.42:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #717859 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #555b43 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.05:1)
Aaon black
8.69:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a3aa8d 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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a3aa8d
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 #a3aa8d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a3aa8d-b4bea2-4e72df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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