Rain Garden
Open in tool →Wet-leaf teal and moss with a soft peach — an overcast spring, calmer than the bright version and better for long reading.
Color
#a3ca9b
#a3ca9b
hex
#a3ca9brgb
rgb(163, 202, 155)hsl
hsl(110, 31%, 70%)oklch
oklch(0.798 0.077 140.3)Closest name: Limestoned (#a7cca4)Relative luminance 0.5239
Colors that go with #a3ca9b
Charcoal, Plum 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a3ca9b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Plum #dda0dd
complementaryshippedPlum sits directly opposite #a3ca9b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #a3ca9b, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #a3ca9b, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #a3ca9b: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #a3ca9b in 4 real palettes, including Tiffany & Co.'s brand system and Frost & Ember, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a3ca9b in 4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #a3ca9b in 4 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Bramble, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #a3ca9b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a3ca9b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.83:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.48:1 | 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 #a3ca9b 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
#a3ca9b reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a3ca9b
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 #a3ca9b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a3ca9b-a3bea2-814edf-1f2d23-eef1e9?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