Color

#a59798

#a59798
hex#a59798
rgbrgb(165, 151, 152)
hslhsl(356, 7%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.689 0.017 12.6)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.324

Colors that go with #a59798

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 #a59798

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#97a5a4

#a5979f · #a59d97

#98a597 · #9798a5

Split-complementary

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#97a59d · #979fa5

#9fa597 · #97a5a4 · #9d97a5

Contrast

#a59798 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.81:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #837273 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #625556 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.48:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a59798 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

#a59798 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a59798
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 #a59798 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a59798-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md