Color

#a4a29d

#a4a29d
hex#a4a29d
rgbrgb(164, 162, 157)
hslhsl(43, 4%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.712 0.008 88.7)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3617

Colors that go with #a4a29d

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #a4a29d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9d9fa4

#a49f9d · #a3a49d

#9da4a2 · #a29da4

Split-complementary

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#9da3a4 · #9f9da4

#9da49f · #9d9fa4 · #a49da3

Contrast

#a4a29d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.55:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #77756e as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #5a5853 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
8.23:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a4a29d 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

#a4a29d reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a4a29d
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 #a4a29d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a4a29d-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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