Color

#a5a69b

#a5a69b
hex#a5a69b
rgbrgb(165, 166, 155)
hslhsl(65, 6%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.721 0.016 111)
Closest name: Moorland (#a6ab9b)Relative luminance 0.3764

Colors that go with #a5a69b

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 #a5a69b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9c9ba6

#a6a29b · #a0a69b

#9ba5a6 · #a69ba5

Split-complementary

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#9ba0a6 · #a29ba6

#9ba6a2 · #9c9ba6 · #a69ba0

Contrast

#a5a69b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.46:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #767769 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #58594f as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.07:1)
Aaon black
8.53:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a5a69b 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

#a5a69b reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a5a69b
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 #a5a69b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a5a69b-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md