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Color

#a494a0

#a494a0
hex#a494a0
rgbrgb(164, 148, 160)
hslhsl(315, 8%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.684 0.025 334.5)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3161
MutedMinimal
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Colors that go with #a494a0

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 #a494a0

GraphiteEstateStoneOatmeal

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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a494a094a498

#94a498

Analogous

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a494a0a094a4a49498

#a094a4 · #a49498

Triadic

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a494a0a0a49494a0a4

#a0a494 · #94a0a4

Split-complementary

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a494a098a49494a4a0

#98a494 · #94a4a0

Tetradic

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a494a0a4a09494a4989498a4

#a4a094 · #94a498 · #9498a4

Contrast

#a494a0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.87:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #84717f as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #63545f as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
7.32:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a494a0 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

#a494a0 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Minimal fonts →
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a494a0
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 #a494a0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a494a0-c19fb4-7bcb62-2d1f24-efe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md