Color

#a49daa

#a49daa
hex#a49daa
rgbrgb(164, 157, 170)
hslhsl(272, 7%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.706 0.02 309.7)
Closest name: Dusky Mood (#979ba8)Relative luminance 0.3491

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a3aa9d

#9d9daa · #aa9da9

#aaa49d · #9daaa4

Split-complementary

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#a9aa9d · #9daa9d

#aa9d9d · #a3aa9d · #9da9aa

Contrast

#a49daa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.63:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b7283 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #5c5562 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7:1)
Aaon black
7.98:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a49daa 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

#a49daa reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a49daa
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a49daa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a49daa-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md