Color

#a494a2

#a494a2
hex#a494a2
rgbrgb(164, 148, 162)
hslhsl(308, 8%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.685 0.027 329.9)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3168

Colors that go with #a494a2

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 #a494a2

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#94a496

#9e94a4 · #a49499

#a1a494 · #94a1a4

Split-complementary

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#99a494 · #94a49e

#a49e94 · #94a496 · #9499a4

Contrast

#a494a2 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.86:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #847182 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #635461 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
7.34:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a494a2 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

#a494a2 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a494a2
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 #a494a2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a494a2-c19fb8-87cb62-2d1f25-eee9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md