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Color

#a4949e

#a4949e
hex#a4949e
rgbrgb(164, 148, 158)
hslhsl(323, 8%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.684 0.024 339.8)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3154
MutedMinimal
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Colors that go with #a4949e

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 #a4949e

GraphiteEstateOatmealStone

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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a4949e94a49a

#94a49a

Analogous

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a4949ea294a4a49495

#a294a4 · #a49495

Triadic

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a4949e9da494949da4

#9da494 · #949da4

Split-complementary

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a4949e95a49494a4a2

#95a494 · #94a4a2

Tetradic

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a4949ea4a29494a49a9495a4

#a4a294 · #94a49a · #9495a4

Contrast

#a4949e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.87:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #84717d as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #63545e as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.09:1)
Aaon black
7.31:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a4949e 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

#a4949e reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Minimal fonts →
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a4949e
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 #a4949e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a4949e-c19fb0-6dcb62-2d1f22-f0e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md