Color

#a69698

#a69698
hex#a69698
rgbrgb(166, 150, 152)
hslhsl(353, 8%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.688 0.019 9)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3219

Colors that go with #a69698

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 #a69698

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#96a6a4

#a696a0 · #a69c96

#98a696 · #9698a6

Split-complementary

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#96a69c · #96a0a6

#a0a696 · #96a6a4 · #9c96a6

Contrast

#a69698 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.82:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #847173 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #635456 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.44:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a69698 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

#a69698 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a69698
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 #a69698 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a69698-c49c9c-62cb8c-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md