Color

#a59993

#a59993
hex#a59993
rgbrgb(165, 153, 147)
hslhsl(20, 9%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.692 0.017 48.5)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3289

Colors that go with #a59993

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 #a59993

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#939fa5

#a59396 · #a5a293

#93a599 · #9993a5

Split-complementary

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#93a5a2 · #9396a5

#96a593 · #939fa5 · #a293a5

Contrast

#a59993 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.77:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #80726b as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #615751 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.58:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a59993 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

#a59993 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a59993
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 #a59993 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a59993-c4ae9c-62cbbb-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md