Color

#a69591

#a69591
hex#a69591
rgbrgb(166, 149, 145)
hslhsl(11, 11%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.684 0.021 33.4)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3165

Colors that go with #a69591

Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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 #a69591

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#91a2a6

#a69198 · #a6a091

#91a695 · #9591a6

Split-complementary

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#91a6a0 · #9198a6

#98a691 · #91a2a6 · #a091a6

Contrast

#a69591 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.87:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #85706b as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #665552 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
7.33:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a69591 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

#a69591 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a69591
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 #a69591 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a69591-c4a89c-62cbab-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md