Color

#a69491

#a69491
hex#a69491
rgbrgb(166, 148, 145)
hslhsl(9, 11%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.682 0.022 29)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3133

Colors that go with #a69491

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 #a69491

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#91a3a6

#a69198 · #a69f91

#91a694 · #9491a6

Split-complementary

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#91a69f · #9198a6

#98a691 · #91a3a6 · #9f91a6

Contrast

#a69491 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.89:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #88716d as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #665552 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.27:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a69491 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#a69491 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a69491
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 #a69491 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a69491-c4a79c-62cba8-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md