Color

#a49c98

#a49c98
hex#a49c98
rgbrgb(164, 156, 152)
hslhsl(20, 6%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.698 0.011 48.6)
Closest name: Dusky Mood (#979ba8)Relative luminance 0.3394

Colors that go with #a49c98

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 #a49c98

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#98a0a4

#a4989a · #a4a298

#98a49c · #9c98a4

Split-complementary

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#98a4a2 · #989aa4

#9aa498 · #98a0a4 · #a298a4

Contrast

#a49c98 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.7:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c736e as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5754 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.11:1)
Aaon black
7.79:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a49c98 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

#a49c98 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a49c98
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 #a49c98 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a49c98-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md