Color

#a49998

#a49998
hex#a49998
rgbrgb(164, 153, 152)
hslhsl(5, 6%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.692 0.013 23.8)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3294

Colors that go with #a49998

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 #a49998

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#98a3a4

#a4989d · #a49f98

#98a499 · #9998a4

Split-complementary

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#98a49f · #989da4

#9da498 · #98a3a4 · #9f98a4

Contrast

#a49998 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.77:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f7271 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5554 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.59:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a49998 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

#a49998 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a49998
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 #a49998 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a49998-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md