Color

#a49eae

#a49eae
hex#a49eae
rgbrgb(164, 158, 174)
hslhsl(263, 9%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.709 0.024 302.8)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.354

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a8ae9e

#9ea0ae · #ac9eae

#aea49e · #9eaea4

Split-complementary

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#aeac9e · #a0ae9e

#ae9ea0 · #a8ae9e · #9eaeac

Contrast

#a49eae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.6:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a7288 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #5c5667 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.09:1)
Aaon black
8.08:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a49eae 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

#a49eae reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a49eae
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 #a49eae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a49eae-b09cc4-dfd04e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md