Color

#a59d97

#a59d97
hex#a59d97
rgbrgb(165, 157, 151)
hslhsl(26, 7%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.701 0.013 59.5)
Closest name: Dusky Mood (#979ba8)Relative luminance 0.3435

Colors that go with #a59d97

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 #a59d97

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#979fa5

#a59798 · #a5a497

#97a59d · #9d97a5

Split-complementary

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#97a5a4 · #9798a5

#98a597 · #979fa5 · #a497a5

Contrast

#a59d97 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.67:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e746d as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #5d5651 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.87:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a59d97 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

#a59d97 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a59d97
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 #a59d97 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a59d97-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md