Color

#a5a288

#a5a288
hex#a5a288
rgbrgb(165, 162, 136)
hslhsl(54, 14%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.708 0.037 101.9)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3562

Colors that go with #a5a288

Charcoal, Lilac and Blush Pink 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 #a5a288

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#888ba5

#a59488 · #99a588

#88a5a2 · #a288a5

Split-complementary

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#8899a5 · #9488a5

#88a594 · #888ba5 · #a58899

Contrast

#a5a288 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.59:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a775c as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #5a5844 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.13:1)
Aaon black
8.12:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a5a288 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

#a5a288 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a5a288
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 #a5a288 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a5a288-bebea2-4ea2df-292d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md