Color

#a5a293

#a5a293
hex#a5a293
rgbrgb(165, 162, 147)
hslhsl(50, 9%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.71 0.022 97.6)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3595

Colors that go with #a5a293

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 #a5a293

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9396a5

#a59993 · #9fa593

#93a5a2 · #a293a5

Split-complementary

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#939fa5 · #9993a5

#93a599 · #9396a5 · #a5939f

Contrast

#a5a293 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.56:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a7766 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #5c594d as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.18:1)
Aaon black
8.19:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a5a293 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

#a5a293 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a5a293
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 #a5a293 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a5a293-c4c29c-4eacdf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md